By Drew Grant 3/29 2:25pm

celebrity health issues

Lil Wayne, not a healthy human being. (Getty Images)

Lil Wayne Is Epileptic, Almost Died From Not Drugs [Video]

Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), the hip-hop artist whose album I Am Not a Human Being II dropped on Tuesday, has had a pretty terrible month. Two (or possibly three) seizures in row left him in critical condition in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in a medically-induced coma on March 13. He was released five days later, but the episode left many wondering if Mr. Carter would actually be able to go on tour for his new album.

But according to Mr. Carter, this isn’t the first time he’s suffered an epileptic seizure. And it has nothing to do with drugs. So he says. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/16/11 8:50am

HEALTHCARE

A nurse protests during OWS march

Hospitals Are the New Banks As New York Nurses Plan Strike Against "Nonprofit Oligarchs"

If you live in the New York City area, try not to get hurt during the upcoming holiday season. Or, if you do plan ahead to visit the ER –Every year, you tell yourself that diabetes takes Christmas off, and every year, you’re wrong– make sure that you have a quick way to get to New Jersey. Because there’s a very good chance that New York hospitals will see a nurse’s strike (they wanted to be Times‘ Person of the Year, too), followed by absolute bedlam. Read More

By Rex Reed 9/21/11 12:14am

movies

Evans.

Puncture is in Vein

Having barely folded up his campy Captain America comic book costume in the box labeled “Burn This,” Chris Evans returns to prove he has enough kilowatts to shine in a script chosen for something besides money. In Puncture, he gets a real workout. It’s a harrowingly grim true story about a functioning Houston attorney named Mark Weiss Read More

By Matt Chaban 3/10/11 2:03pm

Critical Condition

Clear! Rudins Revive Village Hospital, Save Landmark

Nearly a year after St. Vincent’s closed, a hospital is returning to Greenwich Village, albeit a much smaller one. St. Vincent and North Shore-Long Island Jewish have just announced a deal that, along with developer Rudin Management, will place an emergency care facility within the O’Toole Building, the distinctive “overbite building” on the west side Read More