Word: clot
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First, a quick review of the Woodward-au pair issue: a number of months ago, an eight-month-old baby boy, Matthew Eappen, died after his brain was compressed by a blood clot. Soon thereafter, Matthew's au pair, Louise Woodward, was charged with second-degree murder for purportedly beating Matthew so severely that his skull fractured, leading to the blood clot that caused his death. Last Thursday, Woodward, who was hired as Matthew's au pair through an international au pair program under the United States Information Agency that pays the au pairs room, board and stipend in America...
...nothing more to prove and, as he saw it, not much to live for. But when he died, he took a lot with him: the audience's considered belief that he, of all actors, was the attainable best of us. So his death last week, of a blood clot in the lung, provoked a surprisingly profound melancholy in his fans and friends. "I know he was elderly, and we had to expect it," says Doris Day, his co-star in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe...
...Depressing news about depression. A 29-year study finds that CLINICALLY DEPRESSED adults may face a 50% increased risk of dying from stroke. Depression--which is treatable--may somehow alter blood-platelet activity, which in turn may trigger clot formation...
...preliminary study, Israeli researchers successfully used ultrasound to break up BLOOD CLOTS that cause heart attacks. The technique is less invasive than bypass surgery and, unlike clot-busting drugs, does not pose a risk of excessive bleeding...
...powerful but still experimental drug called Aggrastat may cut by 45% the risk of HEART ATTACKS and death in patients hospitalized for severe chest pains caused by unstable angina. Unlike today's clot-busting drugs, which dissolve the clots that cause heart attacks, Aggrastat prevents clots from forming in the first place...