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DIED. DERRICK THOMAS, 33, Kansas City Chiefs' nine-time Pro Bowl linebacker who was one of President Bush's "thousand points of light" for his charity work; from a blood clot following a car accident last month that left him paralyzed; in Miami...
...homocysteine, a naturally occurring substance that forms when the body breaks down protein. Elevated levels of homocysteine have long been associated with an increased risk of heart disease. Exactly how this amino acid harms the heart is unclear, but our best guess is that it either makes the blood clot more frequently or damages the lining of blood vessels in the heart. (Genetic defects and vitamin deficiencies have also been shown to cause an elevation in homocysteine...
Temujin was born clutching a blood clot the size of a knucklebone. His name was war booty, taken from a captive rival by his proud warrior father and tacked on like a medal to his firstborn son. But history echoes with another of his names, a title Temujin would receive 39 years later. In 1206, by acclamation of all the Mongols, he became Genghis Khan, the "Oceanic Ruler" who in the next two decades would father an empire that rolled across Eurasia, linking the Pacific Ocean to the Blade Sea as it amassed kingdoms as loot and nations as slaves...
DEPRIVED HEARTS If you're 65 or older and have a heart attack, you may not get care fast enough--or at all. Researchers report that about half of elderly heart-attack patients receive neither angioplasty--where blocked arteries are Roto-Rootered open--nor clot-dissolving drugs within six hours of arriving at the hospital. The upshot: they are twice as likely to die within a year compared with those who are treated quickly...
...reason the drug works so well is that doctors inject it into a catheter, which they thread through the arteries of the brain to deliver treatment directly to the site of the clot. So far, the therapy has been tested only on clots in the middle cerebral artery, which is the site of perhaps a third of clot-caused strokes. It's conceivable, Furlan says, that as many as half of such strokes can be treated in this...