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...development of safe neuroprotective agents would allow paramedics to start protecting the brain as soon as they suspect someone is suffering from a stroke. Then doctors could administer TPA or other treatments the minute patients arrive at the emergency room. Some doctors point to the fact that emergency cardiac treatment has helped cut the rate of death from heart attack 30% over the past 20 years. "I think we can catch up to and surpass that for stroke," says Dr. Marler...
...yours. When he's kept waiting, he whistles impatiently and claps one hand over a closed fist. He has spent his life emulating a father who asked him, "Did you do the best you could?" Young Billy could never answer yes. He's still trying. Despite a deadly family cardiac history and, at 48, two bypasses to call his own, Payne is, to say the least, driven. "You wake up and devote the entirety of your energy and focus to what you're trying to do," he says. "You work till you physically drop, then you go home and come...
DIED. DARREN ROBINSON, 28, one of the Fat Boys, three rotund rappers of the 1980s who praised hip-hop, hedonism and high cholesterol in a series of gold albums and boisterous B films; of cardiac arrest during a bout of the flu; in New York City...
RECOVERING. JAMES BRADY, 55, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt on Reagan's life, and went on to inspire an eponymous gun-control law; after suffering cardiac arrest at a dentist's office; in Fairfax, Virginia...
...middle of August, Epps went on leave to undergo a kidney transplant but instead faced unplanned cardiac bypass surgery, the veteran administrator said yesterday in an interview from his University Hall office...