Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malpractice trial between Gena Glicklich, a 39-year-old student at the School of Education, and doctors Alan R. Spievack, Jennifer Jones, and Joan Golub. Glicklich sued both Spievack and Jones, physicians at UHS, and Golub, a private physician, for failing to diagnose breast cancer that now could prove fatal within the year...
...attack patterns to changes in living styles. Doctors everywhere have been urging people to eat less saturated fat and cholesterol-rich food, slim down, seek treatment for high blood pressure, get more exercise and stop smoking.* In the U.S., where the message seems to be getting through, rates of fatal heart attacks among both men and women have been dropping by about 3% a year since 1968. Yet in Sweden, where antismoking and other risk-reduction campaigns have been vigorously pursued, death rates for both sexes have been rising. In Switzerland, where there has been a decline in heart attack...
...with what success? To find out, experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva have been compiling statistics on one indicator, deaths from heart attacks, since 1968. The figures, from 28 countries for the decade ending in 1977, offer an intriguing-and baffling-picture of shifting patterns in fatal heart attacks...
...dark, rainy Boston street six years ago, two policemen leaped from their car and ran toward a blue Buick that was about to pull away. Eight or nine shots rang out. A black man slumped over the Buick's steering wheel with fatal wounds in the back of his head and between his shoulder blades. As residents of a nearby public-housing project milled about, James Bowden, 25, was taken to the morgue, another casualty of the war between inner-city Americans and the nation's embattled police. The policemen said that Bowden was suspected of robbing...
...last three years, Shekelle has used death certificates of the workers studied earlier to find a 14-per-cent incidence of fatal heart disease among subjects with "high cholesterol diets," compared to an 11-per-cent rate for those in the lower-cholesterol category...