Word: cardiac
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...vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older...
...news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf, associate legal director of the Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...very sight of a nurse in periwinkle-hued hospital scrubs unnerved his security guards, who pulled the ticketed customer out of her fifth-row seat and interrogated her for an hour before releasing her. "They treated me like I was a terrorist," says Kelly Di Giacomo, a Sacramento cardiac nurse...
...most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week. He was 82 and in his later years had faced a number of difficulties, which, being Henry, he treated as opportunities. Last year he suffered a near fatal cardiac arrest, which he survived thanks to a defibrillator. He had barely recovered when he set forth to write a book on defibrillators...
...published his first work of fiction, A Saint, More or Less: A Novel. After the death of his first wife, Beverly, Grunwald remarried. His wife Louise was by his side last week, and his three children, Mandy, Lisa and Peter. Last year, after his cardiac episode, Lisa told him that he must have survived because he had something further he wanted to accomplish. "No," he told her. "I think I just love living." He did it very well. He left us with warm memories and the challenge of living up to his legacy...