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		<title>Glenn Beck has eye disease that may cause blindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent speech from his American Revival tour, Glenn Beck, 46, announced that he has an eye condition called macular dystrophy that could cause him to go blind. Speaking in front of a large group at his &#8220;Revival America&#8221; tour, the Fox News pundit told the crowd: &#8220;A couple of weeks ago I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Cheney&#8217;s Heart Gets Assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronary artery stenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronary balloon angioplasty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VAD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from major heart surgery. The VP, who is no stranger to heart problems, has had five heart attacks, the first at age 37.  He has undergone four-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting in 1988, coronary artery stenting in November 2000, urgent coronary balloon angioplasty in March 2001, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer-Other]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contrarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god is not Great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Kissinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missionary position]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hitch-22, the recently-published memoir of English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, begins with a sad and dark "Prologue with Premonitions" which begins with his description of a magazine article that, due to a proofreading error, refers to him as "the late Christopher Hitchens." Mr. Hitchens goes on to describe examples of other people in situations that Mark Twain famously referred to as "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."]]></description>
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		<title>Byrd dead from heat exhaustion, heat stroke</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/senator-robert-byrd-has-died-4686/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural Causes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudden Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heat exhaustion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Robert Byrd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Robert Byrd, 92, the longest serving senator in US history has died. The West Virginia senator died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va, a spokesman for the family told the Associated Press. Initially it was reported that the senator was suffering from dehydration and symptoms of heat exhaustion, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beau Biden Hospitalized with mild stroke</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/beau-biden-hospitalized-with-mild-stroke-4208/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 23:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neurological and Stroke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Beau, was hospitalized today after suffering what was described as a &#8220;mild stroke.&#8221; The 41 year old, who is the Attorney General of Delaware, was initially hospitalized at Christiana Hospital in Newark, N.J., but transferred to Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia today. According to the Associated Press, Dr. Timothy Gardner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What were they thinking!? Why people make sex tapes</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/what-were-they-thinking-why-people-make-sex-tapes-4074/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Prejean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chelsea Handler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chyna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Farrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Durst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanie Laurer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Edwards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kendra Wilkinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limp Bizkit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mini Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray J]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rielle Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survivor Jenna Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verne Troyer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kendra Wilkinson and Chelsea Handler are just two of the latest in a long line of celebrities and politicians who have had the existence of their sex tapes revealed to the public. We're working on a story about why people make such tapes, a practice that has been attributed to any or all of the following reasons: narcissism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, self-destruction and career advancement. We'll discuss all of these personality and behavioral topics in an update to this post, coming soon.
According to Chelsea Handler ...]]></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[Cancer-Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immune System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infections and Vaccines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Tourism]]></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>Short Takes and Quick Consults- April 9, 2010</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/short-takes-and-quick-consults-april-9-2010-3849/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer-Other]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Camilla Parker Bowles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibula fracture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg fracture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm McLaren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prince charles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impresario Malcolm McLaren, 64, has died of mesothelioma. McLaren is known as a fashion designer as well as an influential entrepreneur who influenced punk rock with his creation of the Sex Pistols in the 1970&#8242;s. Neil McCormick in the Daily Telegraph wrote that McLaren was motivated less by money than &#8220;by mischief, philosophy and style, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Bush Home from the Hospital</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/barbara-bush-home-from-the-hospital-3801/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/barbara-bush-home-from-the-hospital-3801/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Endocrinology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graves Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyperthryroidism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former First Lady Barbara Bush was discharged from a Houston hospital today. She was admitted 4 days ago for what was called &#8220;routine testing&#8221; after the First Lady claimed that she was not feeling well lately. Doctors believe that Mrs. Bush was having a mild relapse of her Graves Disease, a thyroid condition she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Takes and Quick Consults- March 23, 2010</title>
		<link>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/short-takes-and-quick-consults-march-23-2010-3719/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritydiagnosis.com/short-takes-and-quick-consults-march-23-2010-3719/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infections and Vaccines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bacterial infection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Isakson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Isakson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoracic tumors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viral infection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former The View co-host Star Jones, is recovering from cardiac surgery performed over the weekend. According to her representative: &#8220;On Wednesday, March 17th, a pre-planned cardiac surgery was performed on Star Jones. This recent surgery is a follow-up to the thoracic surgery she had 30 years ago. The procedure was successful and she is recovering [...]]]></description>
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