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...trying to get to sleep are still battling their bodies' natural inclinations, this time to get up. When they do manage to doze off, their rest tends to be fitful, since other bodily functions keep to their usual rhythms. "Nightworkers are often up at noon because their brain and bladder wake them up," explains Dr. Charles Czeisler, director of the sleep laboratory at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The average nightworker sleeps less than the typical dayworker does...
...Micheline Mathews-Roth, an associateprofessor of medicine at the Medical School, saysthat she expects to publish a paper sometime in1991 directly linking beta carotene to theprevention of bladder cancer...
Even with the effort to limit the demands upon his time, there were fears that Mandela would be overtaxed. His crowded American itinerary would test the stamina of a presidential campaigner, much less a frail-looking 71-year-old recovering from surgery to remove a benign cyst from his bladder. Mandela's arrival in New York from Montreal had to be delayed by two hours to give him more time to rest...
...antiapartheid movement's tasks at home and abroad have come to rest squarely on Mandela's shoulders. He embarked on his journey only a week after removal of a cyst from his bladder, and in recent years he has also had tuberculosis and prostate surgery. There were reports -- promptly denied by A.N.C. spokesmen and Mandela -- that he felt faint last week in Geneva and had to cancel a meeting. Out of concern for his health, planners in the U.S. tried to schedule free time between large events so Mandela would be able to rest. But Mandela does not have...
Nelson Mandela aroused concern for his health a few days after embarking on a six-week, 13-nation tour when he postponed a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Although the 71-year-old activist had recently undergone surgery to remove a bladder cyst, A.N.C. officials insisted that he was in good health, while acknowledging that his schedule was "tight...