Mariah Carey entertains woman living with breast cancer

Christmas arrived a week early for a smiling Larissa Podermanski when she met pop star Mariah Carey Saturday backstage at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Fast-forward to the end of a fairytale night when Podermanski , who grew up in Middletown and Middlefield, spoke to Carey , an international musical diva, during a 15-minute private interlude backstage.

George Michael’s Death: Newspapers Around the Globe Pay Tribute to the Pop Superstar

The news of George Michael’s untimely death dominated traditional and online news titles around the globe as many millions of people were still relaxing with family over the Christmas break. The pop superstar, who rose to prominence in the early ’80s as the frontman with English pop duo Wham! , passed away from a heart attack on Christmas Day, He was just 53. British newspaper The Independent led its Boxing Day front page with a black and white picture of Michael on stage, under the headline, “From Eighties Poster Boy to Tormented Pop Icon.”

Donations of 60,000 flood in for Southampton rock star diagnosed with cancer

Since going live earlier this week, Delays frontman Greg Gilbert’s Go Fund Me page has seen donations pour in from more than 2,500 fans and friends across the globe, including from stars such as Ellie Goulding who contributed A 2,000 to the cause. Greg’s partner said she could not face the “heartbreak” of having her daughters grow up without a father, so she took action.

AMP publishes joint guidelines for interpretation, reporting of sequence variants in cancer

The Association for Molecular Pathology , the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional society, today published guideline recommendations for both clinical laboratory professionals and oncologists that assess the status of next-generation sequencing -based cancer tests and establish standardized classification, annotation, interpretation, and reporting conventions for somatic sequence variants. The new guideline was developed by a Working Group comprised of representatives from major professional associations whose members provide professional testing and treatment services to cancer patients.