by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 3, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
The noted novelist Philip Roth has died at age 85 of heart failure, even though he had changed many of his lifestyle risk factors that caused him to suffer a heart attack at the very young age of 56, which required bypass surgery of all five arteries leading to his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 27, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Browning Ross was truly the father of road racing in America. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field teams in 1948 and 1952, and Pan American Games 1500 meter (metric mile) champion in 1951. He won many hundreds of long distance races through the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 20, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Humphrey Bogart was one of Hollywood’s most famous actors. In 1942, he starred in Casablanca, which won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Picture, got him nominated for Best Actor and made him the highest paid actor up to that time, with an income of more than...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 13, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Audrey Hepburn was a movie star, ballet dancer, model and humanitarian who suffered such extreme starvation as a child during the Nazi occupation of Holland that she came out of World War II weighing only 88 pounds in a 5'6" frame. She was extremely...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 6, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing, reformed the British public health system, improved military medicine and dedicated her life to caring for the sick. She earned her reputation by caring for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War with Britain,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 29, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
A recently-published medical journal article claims that Hans Asperger, an Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, was involved in the Nazi euthanasia program to sterilize or kill retarded, emotionally-disturbed and sick children in the...
