by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 24, 2023 | Men's Health
Prostate cancer usually grows slowly over many years, so a study was designed to find out if it is safe to delay treatment for many years. More than 1,600 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (that had not spread beyond the prostate) were randomly assigned to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
William Hurt was a stage, screen and television actor who won an Academy Award for best actor in Kiss of The Spider Woman, was nominated three other times for Academy Awards and starred in many popular films including Children of a Lesser God, Body Heat, The Big...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 30, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Sidney Poitier was the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, and his portrayal of real heroes helped to open the door for Black actors in the film industry. He received two Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 27, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu came from a very poor black family in South Africa during apartheid’s darkest hours to become Archbishop of Cape Town in 1985 at age 54. He led the movement to rid South Africa of its system of racial segregation and white...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 7, 2021 | Deaths of Famous People
Bob Dole was a United States senator from Kansas for 27 years, from 1969 to 1996, the Republican Leader of the Senate for 11 years, the Senate Majority Leader for three years, the Republican presidential nominee in 1996 and the vice presidential nominee in 1976. He...
