Word: arrhythmia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some doctors believe everyone should be tested for hemochromatosis. But that could be a problem, since the tests aren't foolproof. At the very least, anyone with a family member who has hemochromatosis should get tested. In addition, if you have arthritis, diabetes or cardiac arrhythmia, your doctor should make sure that the difficulty isn't actually a result of iron overload...
Living through a heart attack has always been something of a crapshoot, and now that seems almost literally true. According to a new study, patients experiencing cardiac arrhythmia have a better chance of surviving if the crisis occurs in a casino or even an airplane than in a doctor's office. The reason? Most doctors just aren't equipped to handle the problem...
...also appears to have been a turning point, but in the opposite direction. He didn't attend his father's funeral. For some time he had been cutting back his already grudging contact with family members, complaining he had developed a heart arrhythmia made worse by dealing with them. To identify any "urgent and important" letters they might send, he asked them to draw a red line under the postage stamp. When they used it to mark the letter in which they broke the news of his father's suicide, Ted wrote back complaining that the message didn't merit...
...cause of Rosenfeld's death was arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, according to the Business School statement...
...opinion at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she had once worked in the human resources department. There Lewis was examined by a team headed by Dr. Gilbert Mudge, chief of the hospital's cardiology clinic. Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic syncope, a fairly benign fainting condition caused by nerve irregularities during or after peak periods of exertion. "I am confident," said Mudge, "he can return to professional basketball without limitations...