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Truth is, the classic heart attack made famous onstage and onscreen, where you clutch your chest and fall to the ground, doesn't tell the whole story. "Half the time women don't do that," says Cedars-Sinai's Bairey Merz. "But 40% of the time, men don't have a typical heart attack either." Men, however, have been conditioned for decades to suspect that they might be suffering a heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling...
Just ask Kathy Kastan, 43, a psychotherapist in Memphis, Tenn., who suffered both classic and less common symptoms. "I noticed that I would get tired more quickly," says Kastan, who was and still is very active--biking, swimming, running, walking. "I would sometimes have to stop because I had shortness of breath." After a couple of trips to the doctor, who failed to pick up on her heart problems, she collapsed in the street while on a vacation in Colorado. "I clutched my chest, had profuse sweating, chest pains from the front to the back, down my arm, up into...
Also, women frequently have abnormal ECG readings during the classic treadmill test even when their hearts are functioning normally. But before you decide that treadmill tests are worthless, consider the latest research from the WISE study, short for Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation. Data from WISE suggest that false positives in women may be not so much an error as an early warning of a problem, perhaps in the smaller blood vessels, that could become significant in 20 to 30 years, according to Bairey Merz...
...that real life provided so many classic frat-boy-comedy moments? "By the end of the week I felt my teeth eroding from the margarita mix," says Roxanne, a sophomore at Texas Tech and one of the twins. "There was never a sober moment. We woke up with margaritas." Alcohol, logic dictates, has the same effect on films as bad writing: it turns young people into cliches. Not only do the 16 people sharing the phat Mexican hotel suite make out indiscriminately, curse and say stupid things, but they also indirectly deliver the requisite moral lesson of a teen comedy...
Under the direction of Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, Richard III presents a world of treachery and deceit within Aztec times, a classic tragedy to the beat of tribal drums. To some, the colorful costumes on stage might seem cartoonish, and to others, they may suggest the universality of Richard, but one thing is for certain: Shakespeare has never looked this good...