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...time, men don't have a typical heart attack either." Men, however, have been conditioned for decades to suspect that they might be suffering a heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling that they have a bad case of indigestion, they often can't believe that their symptoms are cardiac in origin. Equally important, their doctors often don't believe it either. Doctors tend to put off ordering necessary tests for women having a heart attack...
...before his death. The crowd of 25,000 roared as Signorini was pushed around the field in a wheelchair by his children, who were too young to remember seeing their father play. Rereading a print-out of a thank-you e-mail he got afterward, Collovati takes a deep breath. "You gave me great joy," Signorini wrote to his friend. "You made my children understand who their father really...
...Pantakis was among more than 10,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots who last week took advantage of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's surprise decision to open the border that has divided the island since 1974. "Now that it is finally happening," Pantakis said, pausing to catch her breath at the border, "I feel strange and emotional." The most impenetrable barrier in Europe - complete with razor wire, U.N. peacekeepers and venomous graffiti - was transformed overnight into a block party. Even Turkish Cypriot police got in the mood, helping elderly Greeks cross the line. A traffic jam 10 km long snaked...
...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...
...China-Japan Friendship Hospital started their engines last Monday and dispersed into Beijing's smog-filled traffic. Inside the vehicles was a deadly secret: 31 coughing, shivering hospital workers who had caught severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from their patients. Riding alongside were nurses who recoiled at each contagious breath their dangerous charges exhaled. As the white vans took a leisurely tour of the Chinese capital, a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) walked into the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, hoping at last to gain a more accurate sense of the scope of Beijing's mounting SARS...