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Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, married Marc Mezvinsky over the weekend in Rhinebeck, New York, according to multiple published reports. Although the guests are reported to have dined on steak and salmon, according to the New York Daily News, Chelsea Clinton is reported to have been following a vegan diet for about a decade.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has announced on her blog Goop that she has bone loss and low levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D is an essential nutrient and hormone that is found in supplemented foods such as dairy products and in certain types of fatty fish such as wild salmon, but the most important source of vitamin D is sunlight. Yes, that's right, sunlight is good for you.

The NY Post claims that the Kombucha label states the tea contains 0.5 percent alcohol and has since been removed from Whole Foods stores due to the possible inaccuracies of the label. That would jibe nicely with Lindsey Lohan's alcohol alibi.

Now, this is really getting ridiculous. As if diabetes, appendicitis and intracranial bleed were not enough, Bret Michaels has suffered a mini-stroke due to a hole in his heart.

About a quarter of us have an anatomical feature our heart that persisted since before we were born called a PFO. This structure chutes blood that may contain blood clots from the right side of heart to the left side, imperiling the brain.

Bret Michaels underwent an emergency appendectomy yesterday after developing severe stomach pain. The diagnosis of appendicitis is at once simple and complex. The goal of the clinician here, to sort out those patients who have a cause of abdominal pain that requires surgery from those who do not, in all cases without error (false positives or false negatives), is unattainable.

It is hard to turn away from the photos plastered all over the media of Jesse James’ mistress Michelle “Bombshell” McGee. Sure, some people might find some of her features attractive, but what is most eye catching are her numerous colorful full body tattoos against her pale skin.
But women who wear tatoos are perceived to be riskier and more likely to engage in illegal activities. Is that a good image to project?

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was hospitalized today at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus - 168th Street) for symptoms of chest pain, and underwent interventional cardiac catheterization, according to multiple published reports.

President Clinton has publicly expressed his concern about his health care choices. Would he have had a better outcome if his disease had been treated differently? In this article, we look at the comparison of apples to kumquats.

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of NFL quarterback Tom Brady, reports that she gave birth in her penthouse. While we think a home for a first pregnancy is too risky for our taste, the concept of the water birth was intriguing.

We wanted to know: do babies born by waterbirth have an increased rate of infection compared to those born through normal spontaeous vaginal delivery without the benefit of the bath? And do mothers who delivery in the bath have decreased rate of tearing or episiotomy than those born without a waterbath?

What do Elizabeth Edwards and Elin Nordegren have in common? Both are partners in celebrity relationships that bore children, and in which suffered infidelity.

Infidelity can be considered a form of betrayal, which is a sense of harm due to the actions or ommisions of a trusted person. What does betrayal do to a couple, and how often can they recover?

Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods' long suffering wife, is reportedly postponing a decision on divorce until after Woods completes rehab for sexual addiction, according to US magazine. But Tiger might have been able to change his own body chemistry by spending more time with his children.

Ivana Trump's outburst of swearing against children that she thought were being disruptive on an airplane lead to her removal from the plane by authorities.

Good thing she is not the mother of the children; children who are victims of frequent verbal aggression have the highest rates of physican aggression, school delinquency, criminal behavior, and interpersonal problems.

I can't really understand why the singing stars Dolly Parton and Jessica Simpson put up with the chronic back pain that they get from having large breasts. Both women were recently tweeting about the back pain they experience with their large sized breasts. Yes, I know there are advantages to having large breasts, especially if one is a celebrity. But the disadvantages are rarely discussed.

The International Olympic Committee had a policy of compulsory gender testing until 1999, but did away with the policy because it was largely unnecessary and a gross invasion of privacy. Caster Semenya, the South African champion runner, was tested without her prior knowledge and permission by Athletics South Africa.

If she had known what was in store for her, she may have chosen to refuse the test and not race.

Kevin McGee, the former civil partner of UK Comedian Matt Lucas, has died by hanging, the Independent reports.

Lucas had been playing the starring role in the West End's Prick Up Your Ears. A systematic review of suicide in lesbian, gay and bisexual people reveals that they are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide than non-LGB people.

A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons says that Bernie Madoff does not have cancer.

Prisoners with cancer die much sooner than those on the outside with cancer. And inmates are much more likely to die a violent death while in prison than upstanding citizens. What Madoff's fate will be, only time will tell.

If professional golfer Tom Watson had made an 8 foot putt, he would have won the British Open. Not bad for a 59 year-old man who is one year out from a total hip replacement.

With a death rate of one in 100, getting a total hip replacement should be considered for reasons other than improving your golf handicap.

Much has been made of President Obama's graying hair Gray hair starts to appear in whites at an average of about 34 years of age, and in blacks at about age 43. Investigators have found that most graying hair is caused by a single common feature: A DNA deletion in the gene that protects against oxidative stress.

Penelope Cruz 35 wants to have kids, perhaps with fellow movie star hottie Javier Bardem, but she wants to wait until she has time to make it her "best project in life".

Good for her, but research shows that women who give birth after forty are more likely to experience complications including pre-eclampsia, placenta previa, and lower birth weights.

Pop Singer Michael Jackson, once called the most excellent musical genius of all-time by humor columnist Dave Barry, has died in Los Angeles, multiple sources report. He was 50 years old.

99.9% of people who suffer unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who do not have a return of pulse die. Michael Jackson didn't have a chance.

Initial reports that David Carradine died by suicide due to hanging have been supplanted by speculation that he died during auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Asphyxiators range in age from 9 to 77 and are usually caucasian males. Causes of death during autoerotic asphyxiation are multiple and gruesome.

Am I going to have to have a conversation with my son about the birds, the bees, and asphyxiation one day?

Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus died in a strangulation accident when she became caught in a cable hanging from a treadmill at their home. Unfortunately, death by accidental strangulation in children is not uncommon. Those who do not get a heart beat back before arriving at the hospital are the most likely to die.

The good news is that Natalie Cole's pre-existing Hepatitis C infection is unlikely to cause problems with her recovery from a kidney transplant. Surprised? We were too.

The Hepatitis virus does not appear to affect donor kidney function during the first year after the operation

Stephen Hawking was hospitalized at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge on Monday, April 20th, after falling very ill at home. Hawking reportedly had suffered from a "chest infection", likely a pneumonia, and has been making a good recovery in Hospital. It makes sense that a genius like Stephen Hawking could survive into his late 60s despite having a devastating progressive neurological disease like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis even though most die within seven years of diagnosis.

Former Utah congressman Bill Orton died Saturday afternoon after his all terrain vehicle (ATV) flipped over while riding in the Little Sahara Sand Dunes. He was 60 years old. There is no denying that it is funand exciting to drive around in an ATV, but are the risks too high? The risk of death and severe injury from riding ATVs appears to be higher in older users.

Ann Kelly is being accused by her husband of having an extramarital affair with the married rock star Bruce Springsteen. Both deny the acusation. If men and women are well aware of the potential consequences of extramarital affairs, why do they do it?

In a YouTube clip of Access Hollywood, Actress Farrah Fawcett said "stress is what feeds your cancer, stress is what gives you cancer." Fawcett has been diagnosed with anal cancer. While there are several types of anal cancer, the vast majority are classified as squamous cell carcinoma. Squamous cell anal carcinoma appears to be caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), the same type of virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts.

Natasha Richardson, Tony award winner and wife of actor Liam Neeson, is reportedly brain dead from a head injury sustained during a ski lesson at Mont Tremblant, in Canada. She was not wearing a helmet. Based on the description of the event, Ms. Richardson may have had an epidural hematoma, which is sometimes called "talk and die" syndrome, because patients suffer bleeding next to the brain that becomes apparent only after pressure has built up inside, usually in about an hour. Patients with epidural hematoma can occasionally be saved if they have already reached a hospital that has staff to perform emergency neurosurgery before the pressure builds to the point of irreversibly damaging the brain. This irreversible pressure damage is called herniation.

The former First Lady, 83 year old Barbara Bush, had open heart surgery to repair her aortic valve. Comedian Robin Williams is scheduled to have a similar operation this week. Bush’s surgeon, Dr Gerald Lawrie, described the procedure as “routine”. It is hard to imagine that anything involving cutting through one’s chest wall and slicing open one’s beating heart could be routine, especially for an elderly patient like Barbara Bush. Why, a poor unsuspecting patient might think from such a description that the chance of a bad outcome such as death is as low as the chance of winning a lottery ticket. Not so.

Actress Michelle Williams wants her 3 year old daughter, whose father is the late Oscar winner Heath Ledger, to be a doctor. There is no doubt that being in the public eye all day long can end with unwanted mental and physical strain. But is life as a doctor all that it's held up to be? Why is it that Kibbe et al found that 32% of academic surgeons would not recommend their job to their children or medical students? With a total average debt of nearly $125,000 after completing medical school, it comes as no surprise that they found 35% of surgeons felt this debt placed a strain on their relationships, 48% found it impacted their living accommodations, and 29% felt it forced their significant other to work. This six figure debt will no doubt only rise in the future.