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Surviving Breast Cancer, Heartbreak, And Depression

Alice Crisci | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living


Alice Crisci

As I struggle to reinvent my life in the wake of breast cancer, financial ruin and clinical depression, I realize that what I need most is predictability, routine, familiarity.

Let Them Eat Cake

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home


Norman Horowitz

The 71 year old woman I love has Ocular Melanoma with metastasis. This was diagnosed seven months ago as terminal cancer. What would have become of her if she had no insurance?

The Adventures of a Preterm Daddy: Part II

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living


Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember an old marine saying about rats leaving a sinking ship, so as the last weekend of April approached, we had the setting for a perfect storm.

Dennis Quaid Takes Oprah To Hospital That OD'd His Babies

AP | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment


CHICAGO — For the first time since their twins were given an overdose of blood thinner, Dennis Quaid and his wife have returned to the Los Angel...

Dennis Quaid And Wife Settle With Cedars Sinai

AP | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — Documents show Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a a $750,000 settlement with a hospital that gave his newborn twins an ove...

Judge Rules In Ed McMahon's Favor In Hospital Lawsuit

AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 10.24.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — Ed McMahon's lawsuit against a hospital and doctors he claims failed to properly diagnose and repair his broken neck has passed a ...

LA Hospital Fined For Quaid Twins Overdose

AP | Posted 03.29.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles hospital was fined $25,000 by state health regulators for giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three infants inclu...

Dennis Quaid: The Hospital Didn't Say Our Kids May Be Dying

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Dennis Quaid said staff at the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center misled him while his newborn twins were being treated there, telling him the ch...

Dennis Quaid's Twins' Overdose Results In Hospital Wrist Slap

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


A hospital put three children, including Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, in danger by giving them overdoses of a blood thinner, California regulators sa...

Dennis Quaid's Newborn Twins In Accidental Overdose Nightmare

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


The newborn twins of Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, were reportedly given an accidental overdose of blood thinner at a hospital. The celebrity ...