by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1927, Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for curing some patients with brain damage from syphilis by infecting them with malaria (Yale J Biol Med, June, 2013;86(2):245–254). He got the idea of causing...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 27, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Famous pianist, singer and songwriter Leon Russell died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Nashville, Tennessee on November 13, 2016. While I consider that dying at age 74 is way too young, the real tragedy is not how long he lived but how much he suffered...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 20, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
On November 14, 2016, Gwen Ifill, a noted American journalist, television newscaster and author, died at age 61 of uterine cancer. She was a political analyst who was featured on Public Television's Washington Week and PBS NewsHour, and moderated the 2004 and 2008...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 30, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Tom Hayden was a radical protester and California politician who was widely despised for his anti-Vietnam War activities. On October 23, 2016, he died at age 76 of heart failure brought on by a lifetime of doing everything imaginable to cause the diabetes that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 23, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Bob Marley was a superstar Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter who sold more than 20 million records by bringing Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to the world. He was the first major rock artist to come out of a Third World country. He mixed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 16, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Glenn Yarbrough was the lead singer with the Limeliters, one of the most popular folk singing groups of the early 1960s. From 1959 to 1963 the three singers, Glenn Yarbrough on the guitar, Alex Hassilev on the banjo and Lou Gottlieb on the bass, earned millions...
