In a recent interview with Esquire magazine, Eddie Van Halen discusses his battle with cancer and his stint in rehab. Van Halen also blames his past bouts with alcoholism on his father, claiming the fellow musician encouraged him to drink before performances.
Robin Gibb has shown flickers of life after his brother and fellow Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, started singing to him to try and bring him out of a coma, the Daily Telegraph reported.
As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study released on Thursday shows that one in four working-age Americans went without insurance at some point in 2011, often as a result of unemployment and other job changes.
Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb moves eyes and tries to speak in hopeful signs of recovery.
Barry Gibb is singing to his brother and fellow Bee Gee, Robin Gibb, in an aim to bring him out of a coma, the Daily Mirror reported.
Levon Helm, best known for songs like, The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek,” died on April 19, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
With Rick Santorum abandoning his GOP bid on April 10, Mitt Romney has become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Recent polls show that Romney and President Obama are neck in neck in the eyes of the nation. But does Romney have a secret weapon? It's becoming more apparent that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney is becoming an effective political weapon.
The Pat Summitt era has come to an end at the University of Tennessee after the legendary women's basketball coach stepped down after 38 seasons. Summitt passes the torch to new head coach Holly Warlick, a longtime Lady Vols assistant who handled the main coaching duties last season after Summitt was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Van Halen, 57, recently took his public confrontation with his alcoholism a step further in a tell-all interview with Esquire: The legendary guitar player displaced responsibility for his alcoholism on his father.
Chinese workers who are exposed to silica dust in mines, and pottery and gemstone factories suffer not only from respiratory illnesses, but are at higher risk of contracting heart and infectious diseases and cancer, researchers in China have found.
Deformed fish and eyeless shrimp being caught in the gulf is a result of the BP oil spill, a researcher said
Michael Jackson's former British bodyguard is once again making claims that he is the biological father of the King of Pop's youngest son, Prince Michael Jackson II (Blanket). In 2010, Matt Fiddes, Jackson's bodyguard made claims that he donated sperm to the singer. According to the Daily Mail, Fiddes is now launching a legal bid to prove it.
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX) said Wednesday that it decided not to extend beyond Friday a $6.8 billion hostile offer for gene sequencing specialist Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) after forecasting that the incumbents directors of Illumina will be re-elected.
Nobel Prize Laureate and opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, plans to leave Myanmar to visit Europe - her first time out of the country in 24 years.
A new vaccine aimed at treating an aggressive form of brain cancer extended the expected survival rat by almost 50 percent.
Stocks were lower on Wednesday after the S&P 500 notched its biggest gain in a month, weighed down by IBM and Intel after their quarterly results.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chief Executive Warren Buffett said he has stage 1 prostate cancer but his condition is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way.
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK/A) shrugged off news that CEO Warren E. Buffett has prostate cancer and will require treatment soon.
The King of Pop died in 2009 leaving behind his three beloved children. Ever since, an umpteen number of controversies surrounding the custody of the children have popped up time and again.
This time it is his former bodyguard Matt Fiddes, who has come forward with the claim that he is the biological father of Michael Jackson’s youngest child, his 10-year-old son “Blanket, whose real name is Prince Michael Jackson II.
Randy Cox was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, seminoma. His 6-year-old son, Drew, was desperate to save his father and decided to use his lemonade stand to raise money for the medical bills.
Levon Helm, the legendary drummer and singer for The Band and celebrated solo-artist is in the final stages of losing his decades long battle with throat cancer, according to a very sad message posted on Helm's website http://www.levonhelm.com/ by his daughter and wife on Tuesday afternoon. Here are five great YouTube videos of Levon Helm doing what he did best, along with just a few from the outpouring of messages posted on Twitter in support of Levon Helm and his family.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK/A) CEO Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer, according a letter he released to the company's shareholders.
