This past weekend, a friend called me complaining of severe cramping pain in her lower abdomen. She said the pain started about 10 minutes after she had sex with her husband and now - 2 hours later - she could barely move or breathe. She described feeling the urge to defecate or pass […]

Today’s Medical Minute is all about Telangiectasia, otherwise known as spider veins or spider varicosities. Telangiectasia is not to be confused with varicose veins - a painful condition involving larger veins of the legs and feet.
Telangiectasia are dilated tiny blood vessels on the surface of the skin. These tiny dilated vessels or capillaries […]

When NBA legend Magic Johnson announced he had contracted HIV, many fans began to mourn his imminent death. But Magic has astounded the medical community by outliving his life expectancy.
Today, Magic Johnson’s HIV viral load is undetectable in his blood stream.
How did he do it? By fighting the infection naturally with a supplement […]

Newsweek magazine’s cover story this week examines the longstanding effects of mental illness on one American family. Click here to read the Newsweek cover story.
My bad, did you really think Newsweek magazine wrote a cover story on Nafiza Ziyad’s American family just two weeks after a video went public showing her having a […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]