Word: channelized
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This biography subscribes to the familiar narrative line that Bobby--the runt of the litter, Mother Rose's pet and much ignored by his powerful father, the unpromising younger brother of Hero-Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with...
...Crimson midfielders and forwards will have to count on the patience and wisdom of veterans such as senior Wells Mangrum, junior Mike Peller and sophomores Steffa and Mark Buan to corral and channel the explosiveness of freshmen George, Fritz and Andrew Nechtem...
Many patients suffering from high blood pressure were probably surprised last week to hear that one of the most popular class of drugs for treating their condition--calcium channel blockers--was being blamed for some 85,000 avoidable heart attacks and heart failures a year. Their doctors were less likely to be surprised. They know that treating hypertension can be tricky and that these particular drugs have been under intense scrutiny for the past five years...
...Calcium channel blockers were introduced 20 years ago to great fanfare in part because the science seemed so easy to follow. The drugs work by blocking calcium from initiating muscle contractions in the heart and the walls of blood vessels. This allows blood vessels to relax, reducing blood pressure. More than 28 million people, including 12.7 million in the U.S., take the drugs under a variety of brand names, from Adalat to Verelan...
...after last week's report, delivered at a meeting of the European Cardiology Society in Amsterdam. Researchers reviewing studies involving 27,000 patients in nine clinical trials found that the risk of heart attack was 27% greater--and the risk of heart failure 26% greater--among users of calcium channel blockers than among patients taking other hypertension drugs...