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Elton John Admitted to the Hospital with E.coli and Flu

Sir Elton John was rushed to the hospital on Friday after what his manager described as a bout of influenza with minor complications. Some shows were canceled, as fans were offered assurances that the singer would return to the stage in almost no time. As it turns out, it will be another while until that happens, as ...

2 November 2009
04:00 GMT

Morrissey Collapses on Stage, Is Rushed to the Hospital

Morrissey, former frontman for the legendary The Smiths, was performing at the Oasis Centre in Swindon, England, on Saturday night, when he suddenly collapsed, seemingly unable to breathe. He was immediately removed from the stage when it became clear he had lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital, where he...

26 October 2009
07:01 GMT

Susan Boyle Hospitalized Again

Stress may be taking a heavy toll on Susan Boyle again, although, hopefully, this time, things are not as bad as when she was still in the run for the number-one spot in Britain’s Got Talent competition. Reports in the British media say the singer had to be rushed to the hospital over the weekend for stomach pa...

20 October 2009
09:46 GMT

Drunk Hasselhoff Punches Doctor, Is Hospitalized

David Hasselhoff has reportedly been clean and sober for many a month – at least, that’s the official story. According to several tabloid reports, he’s actually drinking heavily again and, as usual, such behavior sends him straight to the hospital bed. The former “Baywatch” star had to b...

10 October 2009
05:09 GMT

Tori Spelling Hospitalized for Serious Stomach Pains

Tori Spelling of the original “90210” fame has been admitted, sent home and then readmitted to the hospital after complaining of serious stomach pains that no doctor seems to be able to diagnose. Although she is in much pain, the star’s representative says fans should not be worried, as also does he...

1 October 2009
04:24 GMT

Jaclyn Smith Shot to the Head – False Report

A few hours ago, reports bagan to circulate on the Internet saying “Charlie’s Angels” star Jaclyn Smith had attempted suicide in her Honduras vacation home and was at the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. The reports are false, Smith’s rep tells E! Online, and th...

23 September 2009
04:39 GMT

David Hasselhoff’s Emergency Hospitalization Due to Ear Infection

Former “Baywatch” star and current America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff was rushed to the emergency room Sunday night after his 17-year-old daughter called 911. Reports initially had it the actor had been binging on vodka for several hours when the paramedics were summoned, but his camp is no...

22 September 2009
03:02 GMT

Mischa Barton Explains Breakdown, Admission to Mental Institution

In mid-July, former “The O.C.” star Mischa Barton was admitted under 5150 statute to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after the police and an ambulance were summoned at her apartment by friends upon a worrying mental breakdown. Initial reports had it that a combination of stress and drugs o...

29 August 2009
06:07 GMT

Nas Jones Too Drunk to Make It to Hospital for Kelis

Rapper Nas Jones is divorcing wife of almost four years Kelis, despite the fact that she is, as we speak, at the hospital in labor. Aside from the many details of their nasty split that have made their way into the media, a recent report indicates that, as Kelis is almost a day into labor, Nas was not even able to ma...

23 July 2009
02:56 GMT

Jimi Hendrix Was Murdered, Doctor Says

Iconic Jimi Hendrix did not die after chocking on his own vomit following an overdose, the doctor who answered the emergency call and tried to revive the star many years ago, on the night of his death, is now telling the media. Hendrix was killed as a gang who had broken into his apartment force-fed him with wine and...

21 July 2009
09:00 GMT

Mischa Barton Suicidal After 3-Day Drug Binge

At the end of last week, actress Mischa Barton was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was involuntarily admitted for a psychiatric evaluation, under statute 5150. According to the California law, a patient can be held against their will for 72 hours after arrival, and so is Mischa. In the meanwhile, ...

20 July 2009
11:20 GMT

Mischa Barton Involuntarily Hospitalized for Mental Breakdown

Former “The O.C” star Mischa Barton has been taken by police and ambulance to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she’s being held for involuntary psychiatric evaluation. According to several experts, as well as to several reports currently making the rounds in the media, the actre...

18 July 2009
07:08 GMT

Elizabeth Taylor Hospitalized After Michael Jackson Heartbreak

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of Michael Jackson’s closest and oldest friends, has been rushed to the hospital after her condition worsened over the past couple of days, the New York Post says. The 77-year-old actress is now at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles, and her condition continues to be unknown. Sou...

15 July 2009
07:11 GMT

Rep Confirms DJ Sonique’s Cancer Has Spread

At the beginning of this week, it emerged that singer and multi-award winning DJ Sonique had been diagnosed with breast cancer and admitted to a London specialized clinic in order to have emergency surgery and treatment. The star’s rep has just confirmed for several British news agencies that the cancer has spr...

19 June 2009
02:52 GMT

DJ Sonique Goes into Surgery for Cancer

40-year-old singer and DJ Sonique, real name Sonia Clarke, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is now receiving emergency treatment and undergoing surgery at a clinic in London, her publicist has confirmed for The Independent. The singer reportedly received the shock diagnosis the other day and has decided, upo...

16 June 2009
08:04 GMT

Brad Pitt and Family Donate $1 Million to Hospital

Brad Pitt and the entire Pitt family, which presumably also includes partner Angelina Jolie, have agreed to donate $1 million for an endowment fund at St. John’s in Springfield, Missouri. The announcement was made by Brad’s brother, Doug, and confirmed by News-Leader but, as of now, further details on thi...

15 June 2009
08:41 GMT

Susan Boyle Is Out of The Priory Mental Clinic

Despite initial speculation that Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle would spend at least a couple of weeks at London’s prestigious The Priory clinic which specializes in mental health, the Britain’s Got Talent runner-up has already been released and is getting ready for breaking into the spotlight pro...

5 June 2009
04:58 GMT

Angelina Jolie Hurt, Taken to the Hospital

Fans already know that Angelina Jolie insisted she did most of her stunts in the upcoming “Salt” movie, in which she plays a spy who would stop at nothing to get her way. TMZ reports that the star was rushed to the hospital yesterday, after being hurt on the set of the movie, as she was filming precisely ...

30 May 2009
06:47 GMT

Danielle Lloyd Nearly Loses Leg in Violent Club Fight

Following the violent club brawl of the other night, where two yet unidentified women took glamour model Danielle Lloyd and hurled her body onto a table of drinks, the star was warned by doctors she could have lost her leg because of the massive blood loss she sustained, The Sun informs. Since being rushed to the hos...

27 May 2009
03:12 GMT

Mike Tyson’s 4-Year-Old Daughter Dies in Hospital

Yesterday morning, the 4-year-old daughter of boxing champion Mike Tyson was rushed to the hospital after being found unresponsive, with the cord from the treadmill wrapped around her neck. A Phoenix police spokesperson has already confirmed the tragic news for celebrity gossip website / paparazzi agency TMZ, as also...

27 May 2009
02:16 GMT

Mike Tyson’s Daughter on Life Support After Home Incident

Exodus Tyson, the 4-year-old daughter of legendary box champion Mike Tyson, was rushed to the hospital a couple of hours ago after being found unresponsive by her brother. It seems the girl almost got her neck caught in a cable from a treadmill and was not able to free herself from it. She is now at the hospital on l...

26 May 2009
08:19 GMT

Drunk Amy Winehouse Rushed to the Hospital Again

Just yesterday, Amy Winehouse’s representative was saying she was ready to get her life back in order and her music career back on track with a string of live performances at summer festivals in the UK. Granted, this was not the first time that fans got to hear this kind of promise, but it did seem legit enough...

20 May 2009
09:44 GMT

Nadya Suleman Shoots Down Rumors of a Tummy Tuck

She’s often been criticized for taking handouts and freebies, but even OctoMom Nadya Suleman knows where and when to draw the line. According to her recent interview with Radar Online, she would never get a tummy tuck, even if it came for free, which should set the record straight as regards her imminent hospit...

13 May 2009
11:00 GMT

Dave Gahan Hospitalized, Depeche Mode Cancels Concert

Depeche Mode’s current tour in support of the band’s latest album, “Sounds of the Universe,” and which includes dates throughout 2010, was cut short just days in. Frontman Dave Gahan was rushed to the hospital in Greece for a condition yet unknown, which has led to calling off the Athens conce...

13 May 2009
07:08 GMT

VH1’s Daisy de la Hoya Hospitalized for Overdose

While Daisy de la Hoya’s name might not ring a bell with most people, she is somewhat of a major star in the television world, having already starred in “Rock of Love” and getting her own dating series on VH1. According to TMZ, the controversial star was rushed to the hospital in the early hours of ...

8 May 2009
08:47 GMT

Nadya Suleman to Have Uterus Partially Removed

OctoMom Nadya Suleman is scheduled for an operation that will take place this weekend and that will see the fibroid tumors in her uterus are removed, Radar Online informs. According to the media outlet, with whom Suleman keeps in close contact, the procedure will perhaps prevent the 33-year-old woman from having more...

8 May 2009
08:25 GMT

David Hasselhoff Rushed to the Hospital for Alcohol Poisoning

Over the years, former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff has often kept the headlines with his erratic behavior when intoxicated, as well as with his longtime struggle with his alcohol addiction. Nevertheless, the most recent incident, which took place over the weekend and ended in an emergency visit to th...

4 May 2009
02:46 GMT

Farrah Fawcett Losing Battle with Cancer

At the beginning of the month, legendary screen siren Farrah Fawcett was hospitalized for an internal bleeding that reportedly had nothing to do with her cancer returning, but with a medical procedure she underwent in Germany. Now, friends close to the star are telling the media that she has been taken home where the...

30 April 2009
09:39 GMT

Casey Aldridge Hospitalized After Car Accident

Casey Aldridge, the father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ child, was involved in a one-car accident in the early hours of Sunday, when his truck flipped through the air as he lost control of the vehicle. He was the only one of the five people inside to require medical assistance, and is currently under observation at th...

27 April 2009
08:53 GMT

Farrah Fawcett Confirms Cancer Has Spread to Her Liver

Yesterday, a close friend of “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett rubbished reports that the actress had been rushed to an LA hospital unconscious and in critical condition. The 62-year-old actress had been hospitalized for a minor procedure and she would be returning home soon, Craig Nevius said,...

8 April 2009
09:43 GMT

Farrah Fawcett Is Not Dying, Tells Fans Not to Lose Hope

Yesterday, it emerged that Farrah Fawcett had been hospitalized for unknown reasons, with speculation building up that she might not survive. The actress has been battling cancer for three years, and it was believed that her condition had deteriorated to the point where nothing more could be done for her. Now, produc...

7 April 2009
06:44 GMT

Farrah Fawcett Unconscious, Critical in Los Angeles Hospital

Actress Farrah Fawcett has been battling cancer for three years, with things taking a turn for the worse in recent days, following a visit to Germany for experimental stem-cell treatment. Rushed to the hospital almost dead, the 62-year-old star is now said to be in critical, but stable condition, as Radar Online can ...

6 April 2009
06:18 GMT

15 Hospital Workers Fired for Snooping at Nadya Suleman’s Records

Whenever a celebrity is admitted to a hospital for one reason or another, it’s to be expected that someone curious or desperate enough be snooping about medical records for all the juicy details. It happened to Britney Spears, George Clooney, Sarah Fawcett, and now, according to the New York Daily News, to Octo...

1 April 2009
09:02 GMT

Hospital Releases Two Octuplets to Nadya Suleman

After weeks of speculation and heavy criticism, Nadya Suleman is making the first steps towards being a mother of 14. The Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, where Suleman gave birth to octuplets in January, has just released two healthy baby boys to the mother, as she’s readying to receive home anothe...

18 March 2009
07:55 GMT

Pete Burns Hospitalized for Emergency Surgery

As a rule, Peter “Pete” Burns usually makes the news with eccentric headlines such as “Burns paid £1 million for botched surgery on his lips,” or “Burns in court again,” in other words, either for his many plastic surgeries or for his brush-offs with the law. This time, it&rs...

17 March 2009
09:36 GMT

Amy Winehouse Collapses Again, Is Hospitalized

Amy Winehouse has had her fair share of troubles in just 25 years of age, but she’s not out of the woods just yet, from what reports coming from the island of St Lucia are saying. Apparently, the singer collapsed over the weekend and was rushed to the hospital, where she remained to this date, it has been confi...

16 February 2009
09:00 GMT

Actor Patrick Swayze Hospitalized for Pneumonia

While just the other day actor Patrick Swayze sat down with television personality Barbara Walters for the first interview since being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer to speak of remaining optimistic, his road to beating the disease might have just hit a hard wall. Yesterday, during a press event for the Te...

10 January 2009
04:00 GMT

Computer Virus Outbreak Hits London Hospitals

The networks of three London hospitals, the Royal London Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts), and the London Chest Hospital, were severely affected by a computer worm, on Tuesday. Because of the emergency procedures, the activity relying on computer systems has been affected, and non-essential operatio...

19 November 2008
10:09 GMT

Britney Took Her Own Son Hostage

You know why I like Brit Brit so much? Because when it comes to her, nine times out of ten the truth is better than anything we might imagine - and I mean anything. It's happening now, too. Slowly, the details of what really happened last night are emerging, and let me tell you this: they're not pleasant. I...

4 January 2008
10:45 GMT

Do I Smell a Little Bulimia?

Have you noticed how all these young Hollywood starlets...let me think...Lindsay Lohan, Britney...you know, the whole generation of the wonder children turned cocaine users...well, they all seem to go through exactly the same paces? First, they become famous, then they start winning lots of money...and at some point ...

20 November 2007
09:24 GMT

Is J.Lo Headed Towards Another Miscarriage?

No so good news on the J.Lo pregnancy front. Lopez was reportedly rushed to hospital following a miscarriage scare. The 'Do It Well' singer, who finally confirmed she is expecting her first child with her husband Marc Anthony last week, was taken to a US hospital after noticing blood in her urine. I sure ho...

15 November 2007
09:12 GMT

Mobile Phones, Risky to Use in Hospitals

The electromagnetic interference of mobile phones seems to be even more dangerous than previously thought. Recent studies have shown that this can affect the way that hospital equipment works, endangering the patients' lives.This sounds more like a myth that will raise some eyebrows and convince few people. Stil...

10 September 2007
09:21 GMT

Dave Chappelle in the Emergency Room!

He is one of the most famous comedians around and probably the most hardworking. Dave Chappelle has been exhausted ever since he dropped out of his Comedy Central show in mid-season. In 2005 he also had a few problems that resulted in a visit to a shrink about stress-related problems and exhaustion, but he seems not ...

18 July 2007
11:12 GMT

World's First Image Guided Surgical Robot

Robots have a variety of industrial applications, where work is monotonous or potentially harmful to humans, or when human sense organs must be artificially enhanced. In medicine, robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minim...

18 April 2007
09:53 GMT

Britney Celebrates Her Divorce by Hitting the Clubs

Yesterday, Britney Spears and her estranged mock of a husband finally reached an agreement in what concerns the pecuniary terms of their divorce. After months and months of speculation, during which we heard that K-Fed would walk away from the two-year marriage with amounts ranging from $10 million to $50 million, th...

31 March 2007
06:04 GMT

Donatella Versace Goes into the Tabloids-Suing Business

Donatella Versace is certainly not the kind of woman that puts up with the way the media has of distorting facts and sometimes even of putting words in people's mouths; so, it comes as no surprise that she's now literally steaming mad, especially as the whole thing also involves her daughter and heir to the...

30 March 2007
08:40 GMT

Britney Goes to Hair Salon, the ER and then Lunch

You know that writing about every little occurrence in Britney Spears' life would take at least a couple of hours daily, so it's way better to present all that concerns her in just a couple of words... as a special gift to all Brit's fans. As we reported last week, the pop star is out of Promises rehab...

26 March 2007
10:23 GMT

Mobile Phones Are Safe to Use in Hospitals

According to US researchers, mobile phones and calls made with them will not affect medical devices in hospitals, but store anti-theft alarms could make implanted heart devices misfire. Tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota proved that the normal use of mobile phones caused no interference with p...

12 March 2007
05:08 GMT

Nicole Richie Rushed to the Hospital Because, Obviously, Water Runs Short in the US

You would think that, were Nicole Richie to ever be rushed to a hospital, she would be so on account of her ever-shrinking frame and not because there is not enough water in the country to quench her thirst. Then again, she was spotted all the time only with ready-to-go coffee in her hands so we can totally understan...

5 March 2007
09:45 GMT


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