by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 19, 2014 | Deaths of Famous People
Perhaps the most amazing mathematician of all time was Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920). He worked out incredibly complicated problems and expanded our knowledge of elliptic functions, continued fractions and infinite series. During his 32 years of life, he...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 22, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
Kimberly Noel Kardashian, one of the most visible women in the United States today, suffers from psoriasis, a skin disease that causes raised red patches with silvery scales to form on her body. Three percent of North Americans or more than eight million people have...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 17, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
Which doctor do you consult when you are dying of a disease in which you are the world’s leading expert on the treatment of that disease? René-Thééophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was born in France in 1781 and died at age 45. He was a famous French physician who invented the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 27, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
This week former U.S Vice President Dick Cheney and his doctor came out with a new book in which they describe his five heart attacks and his heart transplant at age 71. They should tell you how the American public was kept from knowing just how sick he was. During...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 6, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
“He was probably the greatest surgeon who ever lived” (The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005). Michael DeBakey personally performed more than 60,000 surgical procedures. He developed the surgical procedures to bypass blocked arteries in the neck, legs...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 1, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
The August 27, 2013 issue of the New York Times contains the obituary of Peter Huttenlocher, who died at age 82 of pneumonia, the result of Parkinson’s disease preventing him from clearing particles from his lungs. Huttenlocher was born in Germany on Feb. 23, 1931, to...
