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When women arrived at their clinic complaining of angina (heart disease--related chest pain) while vacuuming, University of Nebraska researchers decided to examine the phenomenon. In a study of 36 healthy women ages 50 to 59, the scientists found that vacuuming was indeed a taxing task, but how much it stressed the heart depended on the model. The easiest to use: self-propelled upright cleaners, best for women with heart disease...
...audience also gets some surprises from the back of the theatre, as cast members very unexpectedly pop out a chest nestled in the rear, to the gasps of the show’s younger onlookers...
...February 2001. To avoid clashes with victims' families, an Arab social worker usually stationed in the E.R. no longer works there immediately after terrorist attacks. E.R. technician Assaly is also wary of victims' relatives, who often lash out at him on the wards. As he develops Lekior's chest X ray, Assaly, who learned Hebrew from a suicide-bomb victim he treated, recalls stopping at the site of a terrorist attack last year and administering first aid. An Israeli identified him as an Arab and tried to drag him away, he says. Assaly's mother, who was with him then...
...defibrillator implanted in your chest, it's not an idle question to ask whether it's in good working order. Thanks to medical-equipment maker Medtronic, heart patients can check up on the lifesaving device simply by waving a mouselike wand over their chest. The wand is plugged into a standard phone jack to send data to a physician over the Internet. An implanted defibrillator--a miniature version of the electric paddles that appear regularly on ER--can shock a racing heart back to a healthy rhythm. But every few months, doctors must check to see if it is operating...
...right arms turned up in the discarded mummy wrappings. The better preserved of the two is a woman's arm that may be in a flexed position; the hand on the arm is clasped. If attached to the young woman's body, the arm would be bent across her chest and the hand could have held a scepter--an Egyptian sign of kingly power. "This was clearly someone of authority," says Ertman. "The only other time I've seen this is in an image of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king...