Month: October 2021

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Shannen Doherty hopes her story will help other women. The Beverly Hills, 90210 star shared two candid photos of "what cancer looks like," urging people to get mammograms. Doherty revealed last year that her cancer returned as stage IV.  "I'd like to share more of my own personal journey from my first diagnosis to my second. Is it all pretty? NO but it’s truthful and my hope in sharing is that we all become more educated," the 50-year-old actress began. "I hope I encourage people to get mammograms, to get regular checkups, to cut thru the fear and face whatever might be in front of you." Shannen Doherty posts personal photos amid stage IV breast cancer. (FilmMagic)In the first image, Doherty is lying in bed with a bloody nose. "In 2015 I got...

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3 things to know: 2,674 newly confirmed or probable cases, 32 newly reported deaths 23,128 known, active cases; 881 currently hospitalized 73.7 percent of 16-and-older residents with at least one vaccine dose Updated 4:20 p.m. State health officials and hospital leaders on Thursday painted an increasingly worrisome picture of Minnesota’s stressed health care systems — short-staffed, with exhausted workers struggling to meet the needs of rapidly rising numbers of COVID-19 and other patients. Nearly 900 people are in Minnesota hospitals now with COVID, with 234 needing intensive care — the highest count so far in 2021, according to Thursday’s Health Department data. While hospitalizations aren’t skyrocketing as they did in fall 2020, the current situation is still pressuring hospitals a...

UCHealth, a major Colorado-based hospital network, is denying organ transplants to would-be organ recipients and living donors unless they’re vaccinated against COVID-19. The policy drew attention this week after a Colorado Springs woman had her spot on a kidney transplant list “inactivated,” with the threat of removal from the list entirely, if she doesn’t pursue COVID vaccination within 30 days. The woman, Leilani Lutali, told KOAA News she harbors reservations about the shot. Her living donor, Jaimee Fougner, says she objects for religious reasons. UCHealth says its policy protects the lives of everyone involved. The network has cited studies showing that unvaccinated transplant recipients who contract COVID-19 are much more likely to die from the disease than the broader population. ...