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Nicole Richie Back Home with 'No Problems'
Originally posted 11/20/2009 03:55PM
Nicole Richie has checked out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after battling pneumonia and is at home resting, says her boyfriend Joel Madden.
"So I stepped off the plane after a month out of the country, and basically went straight to the hospital for the week," Madden wrote on his band's Web site on Friday. "But don't worry all is well and we are home with no problems."
Richie, 28, had been sick for the last week and a half. "Ok cold, it's been 6 days. Lets part ways graciously & keep it moving," she Tweeted on Sunday.
Last week the star's rep shot down Internet rumors that she was suffering from the swine flu.
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Nicole Richie Hospitalized for Pneumonia
Originally posted 11/18/2009 05:30PM
After complaining of feeling badly for days, Nicole Richie was hospitalized for pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was "doing well," her rep said Wednesday.
On Sunday, Richie, 28, said on her Twitter page that she had been battling illness, writing, "ok cold, it's been 6 days. Lets part ways graciously & keep it moving."
And the following day, at a court hearing to get restraining orders against two paparazzi, Richie appeared subdued and her lawyer indicated to the judge that she wasn't feeling well.
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Amy Winehouse Spends Another Night in the Hospital
Originally posted 11/18/2009 08:15AM
Amy Winehouse has spent a third night in the hospital after becoming sick.
She had taken some over-the-counter cures for a cold, and they reacted with other medication in her system, a source tells PEOPLE. She has been in the London Clinic since she was admitted on Sunday.
It's a familiar place for the singer, 26. Her life has been checkered with health issues – she even came close to death, her father has said. But this time it's different, with Winehouse feeling healthier and more self-confident.
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Brooke Shields Recalls Suicidal Thoughts After Giving Birth
Originally posted 11/16/2009 07:25PM
Brooke Shields has been open about her struggles with post-partum depression, but in revealing new comments she expresses the true depths of her suffering.
Shields, 44, spoke movingly about the stigma of depression and her experience battling the disease on Monday while receiving an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in Manhattan.
"We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own," said the actress, who is mom to two girls, Rowan, 6, and Grier, 3. "I've always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It's in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it."
After a miscarriage and seven IVF attempts, she gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003 with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy. "I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her," she said of the depression she felt. "I couldn't hold her and I couldn't sing to her and I couldn't smile at her ... All I wanted to do was disappear and die."
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Go Behind the Scenes with Ethan Zohn!
Originally posted 11/12/2009 06:55PM
In his latest video, Ethan Zohn takes viewers behind the scenes at his PEOPLE photo shoot on Manhattan's West Side.
Diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last April – and after enduring three months of nausea-inducing chemotherapy last summer – the Survivor: Africa winner appears upbeat and filled with optimism at his photo shoot.
"Ethan was phenomenal," says his girlfriend of six years, fellow Survivor winner Jenna Morasca, 28. "He may have a career as a model – a bald model."
Zohn, who turned 36 on Nov. 12, is currently in the middle of a new treatment regimen aimed at wiping out the disease, which actually spread during the first chemo treatments.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Son Helps Him Deal with Cancer Diagnosis
Originally posted 11/10/2009 01:50PM
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar didn't have to look far for advice after he was diagnosed with leukemia. His middle son, Amir, 28, is a third-year medical student in San Francisco.
"He was a real great source for me, just that I can talk to him about it. Being a doctor, he understood what was happening, and gave me realistic viewpoint on it," Abdul-Jabbar said in an interview with PEOPLE. "That means a lot to me."
Abdul-Jabbar, 62, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in December 2008 after having hot flashes and sweats. His blood work revealed that his white blood cell count was "sky high," he said. Now taking medication for the blood disease, he is expected to have a regular life span.
"When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared," said Abdul-Jabbar. "My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. It's in my family, so I thought this was something else along those lines, but it's not."
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NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Has Cancer
Originally posted 11/10/2009 05:00AM
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of basketball's all-time greatest players, announced Tuesday morning that he has cancer. The sports legend made the public disclosure nearly a year after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.
"Having lost one of my closest friends to a different, highly aggressive form of leukemia, I knew how serious my diagnosis was," said Abdul-Jabbar, 62. "My own life expectancy became a question mark."
Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, won five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers before retiring in 1989. He was diagnosed with CML in December 2008 and is being treated with a medicine that targets the abnormal protein that causes his leukemia. With treatment, Abdul-Jabbar, who currently is a coach with the Lakers, is expected to live a full, active life.
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Elton John Leaves Hospital
Originally posted 11/05/2009 09:15AM
It's back to the Yellow Brick Road for Elton John – who left the hospital early Thursday after illness had forced him to cancel a series of concerts.
The singer, 62, was treated at a hospital last weekend in London after suffering from flu and a "serious case" of e. coli bacterial infection, his Web site said.
His spokesman Gary Farrow tells PEOPLE the singer is now "fine."
The hitmaker (I'm Still Standing, Rocket Man) will resume his concert schedule in Oakland and San Jose, Calif., where he will join Billy Joel on Nov. 14 and 17.
– Simon Perry
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Flu Forces Elton John to Cancel Concerts
Originally posted 11/01/2009 10:00AM
The flu may be on everyone's minds, but it happens to be in Elton John's system – prompting the British musician, who is said to be in a London hospital for treatment of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza, to postpone the Seattle and Portland, Ore., dates on his current tour, costarring Billy Joel, the BBC reports.
Monday morning, John's spokesman Gary Farrow told Reuters that, despite the hospitalization, Sir Elton, 62, was "absolutely fine" and hoped to return to entertaining soon.
According to his official Web site, Sir Elton postponed a Dublin performance on Thursday after earlier shelving concerts in London, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle.
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Musical Maestro Lloyd Webber Battling Cancer
Originally posted 10/26/2009 08:15AM
The composer behind the hit musicals The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita is being treated for prostate cancer, it was announced.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, 61, is expected to be back at work in a couple of months after tests detected the disease early, according to his reps.
In a brief statement to PEOPLE, they said: "The condition is in its very early stages. Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year."
At the moment, the musician – who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and then awarded a peerage, giving him the formal title Baron Lloyd-Webber – is preparing Love Never Dies, a sequel to Phantom of the Opera that is scheduled to open in London in March.
– Simon Perry
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