| Dr. Phil injects himself into Britney Spears' trainwreck (Medical ...
Britney Spears was released from Cedars-Sinai hospital on Saturday. The hospital no longer viewed her to be a danger to herself after her Thursday night meltdown and took Britney off 5150 hold. In the midst of all this, Dr. Phil somehow gained access to her room and supposedly counseled Britney. Here's the statement he issued to Entertainment Tonight: "My meeting with Britney and some of her family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention. She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her." However, Britney's meeting with Dr. Phil was all her parents' idea and she was blindsided by the visit, according to TMZ: Sources say Phil tried speaking with Spears for about 15 minutes -- not an hour as Dr.
Halle Berry Upsets Diabetics
Maybe it's the hormones from being pregnant, but Halle Berry has lost her mind. The actress has been quoted saying that she was a Type 1 diabetic but now she has been able to ween herself off insulin to be a Type 2. SOMETHING THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. Pregnant HALLE BERRY is winning her battle with diabetes, thanks to a healthy diet and good living. The actress was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after she passed out while shooting a TV show called Living Dolls when she first arrived in Hollywood. But the disease has now dropped to Type 2 diabetes because Berry is no longer "insulin dependent". She says, "I've managed to ween myself off insulin, so now I like to put myself in the Type 2 category." Such an assertion is outraging many diabetics. Type 1 diabetes means your pancreas is dead.
The Bonds of Race
But as book has piled upon book, expert upon expert, guru upon gimmick, the whole messy realm has cried out for a rigorous, cultural cartographer. It has found one, finally, in Anne Harrington. A Harvard historian, she has expertly mapped the transmission of mind-body ideas in The Cure Within, showing us where they come from and why exactly they seem to have nine lives. That mind-body medicine has provoked influential skeptics to speak out against it hasn't checked its growth. In the late 1970s, Susan Sontag famously attacked the belief that character causes disease. "Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it," she wrote in Illness As Metaphor. Marcia Angell, then an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, echoed the fear that patients swept up in psychologizing would feel "the anguish of personal failure" if they couldn't cure themselves and might even "come to see medical care as largely irrelevant." Yet the mind-body message continues to thrive.
Furniture store to be redeveloped as 'healing center'
He might have helped transform the Warehouse District into one of the city's premier neighborhoods, but developer Pres Kabacoff himself lives in the Bywater neighborhood, that redoubt of artists and eccentrics whose charm is inseparable from its grit. Kabacoff is now embarking on a project closer to home, and it is not his typical moneymaker. He plans to buy the former Universal Furniture store on St. Claude Avenue and turn it into a "healing center" with a cooperative grocery store, an organic restaurant, yoga studios, gallery space and a street university where people can give classes on anything from second-line dancing to filling out tax returns. He believes the proposal, in tandem with the city's plans to restore the iconic St. Roch Market across the street, has the potential to ignite a revival along St.
Courting Black voters
And we need to be fed,'' she said. The former first lady has tried to remain above the fray most of the week after an unusually rancorous debate Monday in which she and Obama traded barbs. She has criticized President Bush on the stump and rarely mentioned her top rival, leaving Bill Clinton to challenge the Illinois senator more directly. But she has gotten in her digs occasionally. Friday's came as she praised Rangel while implicitly criticizing Obama for being overeager. ''He serves as chair of the most important committee in the United States Congress,'' Clinton said of Rangel. ''He didn't get there by leapfrogging. He got there by lots of hard work.'' While she was courting black voters, Bill Clinton was pitching her candidacy to a crowd of about 200 people Friday in Spartanburg.
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