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Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 1, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

Christopher Reeve was a BAFTA-award-winning movie actor best known as the 6’4″ athletic Superman and his bumbling counterpart, Clark Kent. He was also a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning television actor and a Golden Globe Award nominee. In his late 30s,...
Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

Phyllis George and Polycythemia Rubra Vera

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 18, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

Phyllis George was named “Miss Texas” at age 21 in 1970, quickly followed by winning “Miss America.” At age 25, She became famous as the most prominent woman is sports broadcasting, co-hosting the National Football League’s weekly pregame show with Brent...
Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

Richard Feynman, Physicist and Humorist

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

Richard Feynman was probably killed by the first atomic bomb explosion in Trinity, New Mexico in July 1945, even though it took 42 years for him to die from it in 1988. Feynman was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. He helped to develop the atomic...
Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

Eugene O’Neill’s Guilt and Death

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 1, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

When you were in school, you may have read some of Eugene O’Neill’s more than 50 plays, such as Long Day’s Journey into Night, Desire Under the Elms, or A Moon for the Misbegotten. He was the only American playwright to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature....
Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

President Harrison Didn’t Die from Not Wearing a Hat

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 26, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

When I was in high school, my history teacher told us that William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, died in 1841 from pneumonia because he didn’t wear a hat when he stood in the cold for hours during his inauguration. After that, I wore my...
Christopher Reeve: Heart Failure from Muscle Loss

Comparing the COVID-19 Pandemic to the 1918-1920 Flu Pandemic

by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 19, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People

It appears that the current COVID-19 pandemic will not be anywhere near as harmful as the swine flu influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 that started near the end of World War I, infected 500 million people, and killed about 39 million people, which was 2.3 percent of the...
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