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*The patriarch of the Jackson family, Joe Jackson, has suffered a stroke. However, according to family friend, Jackson is OK and is resting in a Las Vegas hospital. “He was doing well and says he’s feeling OK,” close family friend Brian Oxman told Reuters. Oxman said the father of late pop icon Michael Jackson started [...]
*Model/actress Eva Marcille has been crying “tears of joy” after her father spoke her name for the first time since suffering a serious stroke last year. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In Sister 2 Sister magazine, the “America’s Next Top Model” champ reveals her family has been reeling from her 60-year-old dad’s illness, which left [...]
*Gil Noble, the host and producer of influential public affairs show “Like It Is” – which aired on New York’s WABC – died Thursday, April 5, about eight months after suffering from a stroke. He was 80. Noble’s joined the ABC flagship station in 1967, and soon anchored its weekend newscasts, according to Deadline. “Like [...]
*In a move that goes against standard practice in the entertainment industry, singer Patti Austin has no problem speaking openly about her decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery in 2005 and gain control of her health. “That was something that I was in denial about,” Austin tells EURweb exclusively regarding the detrimental effects of being [...]
*According to Jazzwise Magazine percussionist and composer, Ralph MacDonald, who was one of the most recorded percussionists in jazz, soul and funk as well as a Grammy Award winning songwriter, has died. MacDonald, who penned the classic R&B tunes “Just the Two of Us” and “Where is the Love,” suffered from a stroke and lung [...]
*Stand-up comedian Patrice O’Neal died on Tuesday at the age of 41 following a stroke last month, his agent said. “It is with terrible sadness we must report that Patrice O’Neal has passed away this morning…due to the complications of the stroke he suffered on October 19,” O’Neal’s agent Matt Frost said in a statement, [...]
*Weeks after participating in Comedy Central’s “Roast of Charlie Sheen,” comedian Patrice O’Neal has suffered a stroke, reports E! News. O’Neal’s fellow comic Jim Norton broke the news about the funnyman’s Oct. 19 stroke Wednesday on satellite radio’s Opie and Anthony Show. So far, there’s no official word on his condition or his prognosis. [...]
*Grammy-winning blues musician Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website. Smith’s death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, with whom [...]
*Unfortunately we have sad news about saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. The “Big Man” died today (06-18-11) from complications from a stroke that he suffered at his home in Florida on June 12. Even though after two brain surgeries last week when he was reported to be “responsive and in stable [...]
*On Monday, the Bruce Springsteen fansite Backstreets.com — said to be well-connected, according to the Hollywood Reporter — quoted a “close friend” of E Street Band saxophone player Clarence Clemons as saying the musician’s condition is improving after he suffered a stroke over the weekend in his Florida home. “Yesterday it did not look good [...]
*Harold Camping, the Doomsday radio preacher who sparked international media attention by predicting the end of the world last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke at his Alameda home Thursday night. The 89-year-old radio evangelist and president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio was taken by ambulance from his house Thursday night, a [...]
*Several media outlets are reporting that Clarence Clemons, the famous saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has suffered a stroke. The news was broken by entertainment gossip website showbiz411.com, which said Clemons was “seriously ill” after suffering the stroke Sunday at his Florida home. A person who has worked with Clemons in the [...]
*More people are living into their seventies, eighties, and nineties, yet diabetes is on the upswing in this population. Diabetes is one of the top contributors to death in America today. Notice that I said America, not the world. We have skyrocketing diabetes rates among almost every segment of the population: women; men; children; and [...]
*Although no official cause of death has been announced, Nate Dogg’s lawyer is saying that the crooner died from stroke complications. The singer’s friend and manager Rod McGrew released a statement on behalf of the family, who also say Nate’s death was caused by complications stemming from the two strokes he suffered over the past [...]
*We all have had moments when we trip over our words during a discussion, but were able to recover and say exactly what we meant. But, one reporter, after the Grammys, was reporting on the night when suddenly her language started with just a slip of the tongue, but then graduated to the sound of [...]
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