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Women and heart disease? Better believe it. For while most people still think of cardiovascular trouble as mainly a man's problem, the reality is that heart disease has never discriminated between the sexes. In fact, for a variety of complex reasons, the condition is more often fatal in women than in men and is more likely to leave women severely disabled by a stroke or congestive heart failure. True, women don't usually start showing signs until their 60s--about 10 years after men first develop symptoms. And hormones seem to play a protective role in women before menopause...
...scared. Collovati - currently general manager of the northern Italian squad Piacenza - shakes his head recalling that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just a week before. Everything had been fine." Not long after, the diagnosis was conclusive: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. Signorini was helpless against the progressive paralysis that eventually froze every part of his body. He died six months ago at 42, leaving a wife and four children. Seemingly out of nowhere, a once tireless athlete is crushed...
While the details surrounding the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Cambridge resident Michael Colono remain under dispute, those close to Pring-Wilson say the “Sander” they know is no murderer...
...Wooing the Shiite clerics, however, is a daunting task for General Jay Garner, the U.S. administrator for post-Saddam Iraq. Shiite religious-political groups are far from united, and their divisions are potentially violent, as the fatal stabbing two weeks of a prominent pro-Western cleric at Najaf demonstrated. Ayatollah Abdel Majid al-Khoei was murdered by supporters of a young cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, who seek an Iran-style Islamic state in Iraq and are innately hostile towards cooperation with the U.S. But the supreme clerical authority in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf, has been more cautious...
...said that these infections can be fatal if left untreated, especially when they occur later in life...