Healthbolt’s Gone Hollywood!

by Liz on June 9th, 2008

This week is Celebrity Week at the b5Media Health and Wellness Channel and Healthbolt is joining in.

So expect to see some posts over the coming days featuring some of your favorite (or not so favorite) celebrites and what they are up to (or not up to) healthwise.

Personally, I try not to follow the celebrity trail too much, but of course it’s often hard to miss. The media make sure of that. But there’s good celebrity health coverage and then there’s bad celebrity health coverage. I’m going to try and stick to the good, and avoid the bad and the ugly.

For example…

A new study in Australia has found that Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer leads to screening spike in young women. Seems that after the pop star announced, in 2005, that she had breast cancer “…mammography and breast ultrasound procedures increased 30 per cent among women aged 25 to 44, a group considered to be a low-risk for the disease by clinicians.”

And another study at the State University of New York found that often people “connecting” with celebrities via parasocial relationships allowed people with low-self esteem to view themselves more positively.

Stay tuned for more positive celebrity health news…