Health

Award-winning mental health documentary will be shown at Chesterfield Community Center

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Thursday night, “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution” will be featured at the Chesterfield Community Center (formerly the Senior Center). The award-winning documentary was written and direct by filmmaker Lucy Winer, who was a teenage patient at Kings Park in 1967. Established in 1885 and closed in 1996, Kings Park State Hospital on Long Island, N.Y., warehoused more than 9,000 patients at its height in the 1950s. The film offers an inside look at public mental health care in America by focusing on the story of this now-abandoned institution, including former patients, their families and hospital staff, who share intimate accounts of their lives at the facility. These accounts bear witness to the … 0

FILE- In this Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 file photo, actress Angelina Jolie poses for a portrait to promote her directorial debut of the film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in New York. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesdays May 14, 2013 New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. She says shes kept the process private but is writing about it now with hopes she can help other women. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File) ITALY OUT

Angelina Jolie discloses preventive double mastectomy

Friday, May 17, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday’s New … 0

FILE - This Feb. 26, 2012 file photo shows actress Angelina Jolie, right, and actor Brad Pitt at the 84th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in an op-ed she authored for Tuesday's New York Times under the headline, "My Medical Choice." She writes that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, file)

Angelina Jolie hailed for bravery in mastectomy revelation

Friday, May 17, 2013

NEW YORK — “I hope that other women can benefit from my experience,” Angelina Jolie wrote in a powerful op-ed article Tuesday, explaining her decision to go public with having her breasts removed to avoid cancer. But amid the accolades for the film star’s courageous revelation, doctors and genetic counselors were careful to … 0