Word: angina
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...caught releasing a 3-month-old photo of Yeltsin, has little else to go on. Russian television today simply showed Yeltsin receiving a bunch of flowers inside the Central Clinical Hospital, then his motorcade speeding away through the hospital gate.Yeltsin apparently has a form of heart diseasecalled unstable angina, in which arteries narrow and diminish the blood supply to the heart...
...They've got a number of research projectsunderway," said Diana Lipps, a public relationsconsultant for Prudential. "They're looking atprenatal care, angina, asthma treatments andsmoking cessation, among others...
...nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether you can cure a peptic ulcer or angina is another question entirely." The A.M.A. withdrew its earlier condemnation of chiropractic as a cult in 1988 -- after federal courts ruled it an unfair restraint of trade -- but it remains adamantly opposed to broad application of chiropractic therapy...
...regrettable example, drugs called calcium channel blockers were touted as a treatment for heart attacks, though they had been approved only for hypertension and angina. Later, researchers found that some heart-attack patients faced an increased death risk after taking the drug...
Earlier this year, Tandy, who is 80 and suffers from angina, took sick during their annual vacation in the Bahamas and was briefly hospitalized. "I was terribly worried about her," says Cronyn. "We don't have a telephone in the house. Until this year I thought it was a blessing. But in the past few weeks, we really could have used one." She soon recovered, and these days Tandy is almost bubbly, vivacity itself. The best medicine for any actor is a hit, and Driving Miss Daisy, which received nine Oscar nominations, more than any other picture released...