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MARTA Girl’s victim is mother of Morehouse head football coach

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A concerned mother spoke with Channel 2 Actions News’ Monica Pearson yesterday about her daughter’s struggle with mental illness.
Elaine Sabree spoke exclusively with Pearson about her daughter Nafiza Ziyad, 25, who was arrested after a MARTA passenger videotaped her verbally assaulting an elderly passenger.
After an extensive investigation, MARTA police located Ziyad on May 8 in […]

Posted in Controversy, Health & medicine, Law and order | 24 Comments »


MARTA Girl: Why Was This Story Ignored by the National Media?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

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The mentally disturbed woman whose videotaped manic meltdown on a MARTA train became an instant viral sensation was still in a DeKalb County lock up as of yesterday, according to DeKalb’s justice system website.
Nafiza Iman Ziyad, the self proclaimed “Soulja Girl” - dubbed “MARTA Girl” by bloggers - was arrested after being […]

Posted in Controversy, Health & medicine, Law and order | 57 Comments »


MARTA’s ‘Soulja Girl’ Getting the Help She Needs

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

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She’s only 25 years old, but the dark bags under Nafiza Z.’s eyes tell the story of a young life blighted by psychosis, delusions, hallucinations and mania that are the hallmarks of her mental disorder.
Yesterday afternoon, Nafiza, was in the DeKalb County jail receiving the psychiatric treatment she desperately needed. But on April […]

Posted in Health & medicine, Law and order | 44 Comments »


Mystery Illness forces Alicia Keys to cancel shows

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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According to Alicia Keys‘ publicist, a mystery illness has forced Alicia to cancel shows. A mystery illness also forced Jordin Sparks to leave Alicia’s tour.
After cancelling a concert in Pittsburgh, PA last night, eleven-time Grammy winner, Alicia Keys, must cancel a second stop along her Lexus Presents the Alicia Keys As I […]

Posted in Celeb news, Health & medicine | 26 Comments »


Your Medical Minute: The Dangers of Antiperspirants

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

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I spotted this picture of actress Halle Berry on one of my favorite sites, Awfulplasticsurgery.com. The writer guessed that the cause of Halle’s armpit scar was a clogged sweat gland - and I agree based on the length of the scar.
Halle probably had a sebaceous cyst which is a very painful infection caused […]

Posted in Health & medicine | 33 Comments »


Biggest Loser’s Big Winners

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Ali and her mom Bettie-Sue. Photo source
I didn’t watch the Biggest Loser this season, but I’m all for people accomplishing personal goals that they set for themselves. The show focused on calorically-challenged contestants who were given a time frame to lose excess poundage. Ali, who competed with her mom, came out the […]

Posted in Health & medicine, TV/radio | 23 Comments »


Boy’s organs kills two transplant recipients, leads to cancer in two others

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

This is a sad story that once again brings national attention to mistakes that are made due to the dire need for transplant organs in the U.S.
The story began when a 14-year old boy took ill and died from what doctors thought was bacterial meningitis - the deadliest form of meningitis.
Alex Koehne was given […]

Posted in Health & medicine | 15 Comments »


Toni Braxton heart scare?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

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A spokesperson for singer Toni Braxton announced she has been hospitalized in Las Vegas. TMZ.com reports that Toni is suffering from pericarditis - an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart. According to TMZ, Braxton may have contracted the illness when she gave birth to her second son.

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Video: Blogging will kill you

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

The blogosphere is buzzing over the recent sudden deaths of two popular bloggers who died of heart attacks due to the stressors of blogging. In this video, popular blogger Perez Hilton discusses his demanding schedule (16 hours a day) and the fact that he makes $20 million a year while working alone updating his […]

Posted in Health & medicine, video | 23 Comments »


Oprah puts on a freak show

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Oprah Winfrey featured transsexual Thomas Beattie, who is 5 months pregnant, and his “wife” on her show yesterday. I shook my head as Oprah fed into the couple’s delusions that Beattie was a pregnant man. Over and over Oprah repeated (for the benefit of Beattie’s psyche) that Beattie was a man and she […]

Posted in Controversy, Gay Pride, Health & medicine, Oprah Winfrey, TV/radio | 94 Comments »


This is not a man

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

For the past two weeks, headlines about a pregnant man have appeared in many mainstream media outlets. The world is already a confusing place without the mass media adding to the confusion.
Thomas Beattie was born a female. Due to her gender identity crisis, she identifies more with being a man.
Some women who […]

Posted in Birth and babies, Gay Pride, Health & medicine | 40 Comments »


Fantasia Reveals Medical Scare

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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According to SOHH Ya Heard, Fantasia broke down on stage during an appearance at a private event over the weekend and was unable to go on.
Fantasia, who was photographed leaving a Beverly Hills doctor’s office (above) recently, confessed that she was diagnosed with polyps on her vocal cords.
Fantasia was very emotional as she spoke […]

Posted in Celeb news, Health & medicine | 22 Comments »


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