by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 13, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Sam Shepard was a prolific playwright, actor, screenwriter and director who: • acted in more than sixty films and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff; • wrote 44 plays,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 6, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
John Urschel, arguably the smartest player in the National Football League (NFL), just retired from football at age 26 to avoid concussions that can cause brain damage, known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. He will finish his course work for a Ph.D....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world's most renowned painters, but during his lifetime, he sold only one of his paintings, The Red Vineyard, even though he painted more than 900 canvases and penned more than 1100 drawings and sketches. He lived most of his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 23, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
My report on Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques, showing that vigorous exercise in later life helps to prevent heart attacks by stabilizing plaques, should be a strong stimulus for people to continue exercising at any age. This week at the USA Track and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Medical fraud is as rampant today as it has always been, but John Brinkley was among the greatest medical frauds of all time. From the 1920s onward, between World War I and World War II, he became fabulously wealthy by surgically implanting the testicles of goats into...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 2, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Stephen Furst performed in, directed and produced many movies and television shows, but he is best remembered for his first movie role in 1978 as the lovable, insecure and massively obese "Flounder" in the 1978 hit movie, National Lampoon’s Animal...
