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While rivals like CVS and Walgreens are enjoying record profits, the nation's second largest drugstore chain is saddled with billions of dollars in debt and caught in the crosshairs of an SEC investigation into its questionable accounting practices. For months the bad news has been relentless: In mid-October...
First found to suffer from atrial fibrillation in 1996, Bradley has had seven episodes since then. Before putting him on drugs that kept his heartbeat regular, in 1998, doctors had to apply an electrical current across his chest on three different occasions to get his heartbeat back to normal. But...
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the smaller two chambers of the heart (the atria) contract faster than the two larger ones (the ventricles), causing an erratic but still viable flow of blood. "We don't know all the causes of atrial fibrillation," says Dr. Mel Scheinman, a professor of cardiology at...
But what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have loving parents and are not poor? What about boys like Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris, or Kip Kinkel of Springfield, Ore., who killed his parents and two schoolmates in 1998? Are their parents to blame when...
Intelligent kids with good social skills can be quite skillful at hiding who they really are from their parents. They may do this to avoid punishment, to escape being identified as "crazy," or to protect the parents they love from being disappointed or worried. In the wake of his shooting...