Pancreatic cancer

In Going Public, Valerie Harper Is in Good Company

Posted on 03/11/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | Your LifeActress Valerie Harper’s March 11 appearance on the Today show to discuss her diagnosis of terminal brain cancer made her the latest celebrity to go on television to talk about a personal life-and-death health challenge. There was a time the famous tended to keep quiet about serious illnesses behind a protective cocoon of press agents, limousines with tinted windows and mansion walls. Often fans found out about their conditions through terse press releases asking for privacy, or though hints picked …

Bonnie Franklin: 5 Hot-Button Issues ‘One Day at a Time’ Took On

Posted on 03/1/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyActress Bonnie Franklin, who died on March 1 at age 69 in Los Angeles, was a television trailblazer in the Norman Lear-Allan Manings sitcom One Day at a Time, which had a nearly nine-year run on CBS from 1975 to 1984. Franklin wasn’t the first to portray a divorced woman on TV, but as Ann Romano, a mother of two teenage daughters who moved to Indianapolis to get a fresh start after her marital breakup, her struggle to reinvent herself …

Guitarist Wilko Johnson Rocks Until the End

Posted on 02/4/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentBy Jill Lawless for The Associated Press WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Living has been full of surprises for Wilko Johnson. So has dying. Four decades in the rock ‘n’ roll trenches have brought the British guitarist obscurity and fame, followed by turmoil, more obscurity and rediscovery. Now the greatest rock star you may not have heard of — songwriter for rabble-rousing 1970s band Dr. Feelgood — is embarking on a farewell tour. Unlike some musical goodbyes, this one is permanent. …

2 Slices Bacon A Day Hikes Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Posted on 01/16/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthSorry, bacon and sausage lovers, but a new study finds that eating just one link of sausage or two slices of bacon every day may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 percent. “Pancreatic cancer has poor survival rates. So as well as diagnosing it early, it’s important to understand what can increase the risk of this disease,” study author Susanna Larsson, an epidemiologist at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told BBC News. However, other experts called the overall risk increase “modest,” …