Word: deaths
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Hospice Founder Cicely Saunders is a modern Florence Nightingale who has changed the way of death for millions around the world...
...notion that one can die of a broken heart is embedded in folklore. A number of medical studies have supported that view, indicating that widows and widowers are at increased risk of untimely death. But the idea that grief kills has recently come under fire. The increase in premature mortality, say some experts, now seems to be smaller than commonly believed and more apt to involve people already vulnerable. For example: couples who share the same hazards, such as smoking and poor diet...
...reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It reviews the life-spans of parents of all 2,518 Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 October War, plus parents of 1,128 young men who died in accidents. Conclusion: "No consistent evidence of an elevated risk of death, early or late, after the loss." There was one exception: the death rate rose among widowed and divorced parents who had lost a son, suggesting that support from a spouse lessens grief-related stress. "Rather than emphasize the disruptive power of stress," wrote Drs. Malcolm Rogers and Peter Reich...
...pimple, try explaining this." A reason for the agency's success, says its chairman, Patrick Fallon, is that only one creative director reviews all text and designs. By comparison, submitting an idea to the management committee at a big agency, Fallon says, is like "having your work bitten to death by ducks...
Most of the outbursts involve lower-level violence: pushing, shoving or slapping. But a small percentage of these couples engage in clashes that result in broken bones or hospitalization. "I thought there was no way out but death," says Laurie, 31, a student in Eugene, Ore., who used to hide in the closet to escape being battered by her live-in boyfriend. Elaine, a 36- year-old hairdresser in Fort Worth, tried to split up with her boyfriend, only to have him break into her house and brutally beat...