Dr. Mel’s doctors

Connecticut’s best-known meteorologist is donating the proceeds from his best-selling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Weather, to the Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Mel Goldstein was diagnosed three years ago with a rare cancer of the bone marrow and credits his care at the cancer center with keeping him alive since then. His treatment has included a combination therapy using thalidomide, the compound that caused birth defects when used by pregnant women in the early 1960s, but which recently has shown promise as a cancer drug. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Dr. Mel Goldstein Multiple Myeloma Research Fund.