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	<title>Celebrity Diagnosis &#187; Accidental Death</title>
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		<title>UPDATE: 2 Autopsies and 1 Slow Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Addiction-Drug Abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Koppel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Overdose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guillain-Barre Syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polypharmacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Koppel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William "Refrigerator" Perry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1 AUTOPSY RESULTS ANDREW KOPPEL: Andrew Koppel, son of ABC News Commentator Ted Koppel who died May 31, had his death ruled an accident. According to Ellen Borakove, spokesperson from the NYC medical examiner&#8217;s office, Koppel died from acute intoxication due to the combined effects of alcohol; heroin; cocaine; diazepam (the generic form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When illness goes public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/when-illness-goes-public-3898/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/when-illness-goes-public-3898/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immune System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book "When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine," Dr. Barron Lerner of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, explores how celebrity patients have influenced public attitudes toward diseases and their treatments by analyzing 12 case studies between 1938 and 1992. Dr. Lerner describes how celebrity cases can educate the public, create advocates for research and patient care on behalf of other people with the same disease, and have even influenced aspects of doctors' professional training.]]></description>
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		<title>Actor Robert Culp dies after a fall.</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/actor-robert-culp-dies-after-a-fall-3741/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/actor-robert-culp-dies-after-a-fall-3741/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injury-Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Cosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everybody Loves Raymond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls in Elderly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head injuries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Culp, 79, has died. The actor is best known for his roles in the 60&#8242;s TV show I Spy, in which he co-starred with Bill Cosby, and more recently as the father-in-law, Warren Whelan, on Everybody Loves Raymond. Culp had apparently fallen on a sidewalk outside a Los Angeles park. It was unclear whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actor and reality star, Corey Haim, found dead</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/actor-and-reality-star-corey-haim-found-dead-3596/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction-Drug Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autopsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSI-Forensics-Toxicology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["The Lost Boys"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["The Two Coreys"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corey Feldman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drug Overdose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor and reality star, Corey Haim, 38, has died. The actor, who is known for his role in the film The Lost Boys, and for his 2 year stint with friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman, on the A&#38;E reality show, &#8220;The Two Coreys,&#8221; collapsed at his mother&#8217;s apartment in southern California. He was transported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police suspect autoerotic asphyxiation led to Digby&#8217;s demise</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/police-suspect-autoerotic-asphyxiation-led-to-digbys-demise-3520/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Autopsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSI-Forensics-Toxicology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristian Digby, 32, was a director at the British Broadcasting Corporation who was best known for his reality TV show To Buy Or Not To Buy.  Mr. Digby was found dead in his home in East London and police believe that he accidentally suffocated during a solo "sex game gone wrong." A post-mortem examination was reportedly inconclusive. Digby's death is reminiscent of the David Carradine case of last June.]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need to reinvent the hotdog?</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/do-we-need-to-reinvent-the-hotdog-3487/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/do-we-need-to-reinvent-the-hotdog-3487/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Injury-Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Academy of Pediatrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choking hazard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hot dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new guidelines in the March 2010 issue of Pediatrics for the prevention of choking in childhood. As a Fellow of the AAP, I felt it important to publish this information as a public service and educational opportunity. Choking is a leading cause of injury and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Check-up and Family Medical History</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/the-presidents-check-up-3460/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/the-presidents-check-up-3460/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer-Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetic Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jet lag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madelyn Lee Payne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Ann Dunham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[uterine cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, Liz Szabo of USA Today, called us for comment on President Obama&#8217;s medical check-up as described in a memo to Robert Gibbs from the Chief White House Physician Captain Jeffrey Kuhlman, U.S. Navy. The President is very healthy and underwent screening for several diseases (e.g. colon cancer, prostate cancer) that are routine to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brittany Murphy&#8217;s manner and cause of death</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/brittany-murphys-manner-and-cause-of-death-3198/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/brittany-murphys-manner-and-cause-of-death-3198/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction-Drug Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anemia-Blood Disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autopsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSI-Forensics-Toxicology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lung Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudden Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug intoxication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iron-deficiency anemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polypharmacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Los Angeles County coroner, Brittany Murphy suffered an accidental death from pneumonia complicated by iron-deficiency anemia but also &#8220;multiple drug intoxication,&#8221; or toxic polypharmacy as we&#8217;ve previously described. Pneumonia is an infection in one or both of the lungs. Many small germs, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, can cause pneumonia.The infection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Johnson: victim of a medication error?</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/casey-johnson-victim-of-a-medication-error-2891/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/casey-johnson-victim-of-a-medication-error-2891/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnson &#038; Johnson heiress and Los Angeles socialite Casey Johnson was already dead when an ambulance was called to her Los Angeles home, according to an unidentified woman who made the call to 911.

The ambulance dispatcher asked the woman if she thought Johnson's  was a suicide. "I don't know if it's a suicide," the caller said. "Very often, her medication gets all screwed up. It's probably because of that." As previously reported, Ms. Johnson suffered from Type 1 Diabetes which is treated with insulin therapy.

According to studies by the U.K. National Health Service, insulin is a high-risk medicine. High-risk medicines are those that are most likely to cause significant harm to patients, even when used as intended. Other high-risk medicines include:]]></description>
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		<title>2009 in Review: Our 10 Most Important Stories</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/2009-in-review-our-10-most-important-stories-2568/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/2009-in-review-our-10-most-important-stories-2568/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor Patrick Swayze&#8217;s very public battle with stage IV pancreatic cancer raised public awareness of this disease. Three other public figures died from cancer of the pancreas this past year: &#8220;Dream Team&#8221; coach Chuck Daly, CBS News executive Don Hewitt and journalist and presidential speechwriter William Saffire. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was also [...]]]></description>
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