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Bringing industry partners like Philips and traditional-clothing and -textile companies together with university researchers from across the E.U. and Switzerland, E.C.-funded teams have already produced prototypes with limited commercial availability, such as a tank top that wirelessly monitors cardiac patients and sports clothes that keep track of breathing. Other projects include fabrics that look and feel normal but are embedded with microcomputers, solar panels and energy-harvesting systems, as well as fabrics that measure blood oxygen levels and track biochemicals in sweat and bedsheets that monitor depression...
...diseases makes them particularly tricky to treat, since extensive studies on the long-term consequences of childhood obesity just don't exist yet. But doctors know enough from work on adults to be worried. Overweight people of any age are at risk of not only better-known ills like cardiac disease but also arthritis, joint damage and sleep apnea. Adults who were overweight as children have nearly twice the risk of dying from any cause in their 70s than are adults who were of normal weight as youngsters. Early evidence also suggests that heavier children are even 35% more likely...
...Boosters claim that undergraduates comprise the heart of the University. If they’re right, Harvard is habitually on the brink of cardiac arrest...
Most Russians, however, stayed poor and felt disoriented, and Yeltsin's popularity dipped. His drunkenness harmed his cause. There was public disquiet about his frequent, lengthy absences from his office. His health caused further concern; if his cardiac condition had been public knowledge he would never have won the 1996 election. Nor would he have triumphed without getting the business oligarchs to bankroll his campaign. In return, they got their hands on oil, gas, nickel and aluminum, and grew even richer. Democracy had been one of his slogans before he came to power, and he continued to celebrate...
...series of studies recently featured in the Harvard Men’s Health Watch newsletter substantiates the claim that optimists are generally healthier than pessimists. The research—which includes long-term studies beginning in the 1960s, and more recent short-term studies—primarily focused on cardiac health, including blood pressure and heart disease. Researchers used a variety of psychological and personality tests to place respondents on a spectrum between optimistic and pessimistic, concluding that in all of the categories examined, people who were deemed to be more optimistic fared better than those deemed to be more...