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...oise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogotá, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema and cardiac weakness brought on by the altitude; she was flown home to France and remains under sedation in improving condition...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder 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. What immediately grabbed everyone's attention in the J.A.M.A. study was the discovery that vitamin E slightly increased the risk of heart failure. That's a first. There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only...
...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...
...Services took a small but significant step toward greater medical transparency this month when they launched a new website hospitalcompare.hhs.gov that allows consumers to assess the care at any of nearly 4,200 hospitals across the U.S. for three conditions: heart attack, heart failure (a progressive weakening of the cardiac muscle's ability to pump blood) and pneumonia. The site is easy to use and is based on nationally accepted standards of care--although there are a few wrinkles you should know about...
More than 15 years after she suffered cardiac arrest (from a potassium imbalance that may have been caused by an eating disorder), which deprived her brain of oxygen and left her in what most doctors have diagnosed as a persistent vegetative state, Schiavo has become a cause célèbre for the right-to-life movement. Already mentioned in all sorts of fund-raising literature, Schiavo is a symbol not just for those fighting the right-to-die movement but also in the battle over abortion, stem-cell research and judicial activism. "We're replacing the sanctity of life with...