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...likely to have a second attack as patients whose occupations were relatively stress-free. The study tracked 972 first-time heart attack survivors, aged 35-59, all of whom went back to work within 18 months of their heart attack for at least 10 hours a week. In periodic follow-up interviews between 1996 and 2005, those patients who reported chronic job strain - defined as a job that was high in psychological demands but low in feelings of control - were not only at higher risk for a second heart attack, but also had a markedly higher risk of death than...
...transfusions. The trend affects almost every group of critically ill patients - from trauma sufferers in the ER to heart attack victims, patients with anemia and those undergoing chemotherapy. This increase in death and heart disease, doctors say, is unrelated to infectious blood-borne diseases or allergic reactions that often follow transfusions. "After you control for sickness and all sorts of things, patients who receive transfusions still have more heart attacks. It makes no sense," says Dr. Jonathan Stamler, a professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center...
...pressure on Israel to make concessions - to broker a historic peace deal. "The record of the administration does not bode well," says an Arab official. "This Administration has not done anything on the Palestinian issue, apart from saying in 2002 that they want a Palestinian state but failing to follow up on that. Getting anything out of them has involved getting it with a big wrench...
...himself buying ice cream and snapping a picture of himself together with one of his many beloveds. Basking in the slowly-fading glow of Kingston’s summer hit “Beautiful Girls,” “Me Love” is an exceptionally sunny follow-up. The next time you’re itching to jump into the pool or become the instantaneous object of fifteen different people’s affections, turn up Kingston’s fun and catchy “Me Love...
...prison and his Republican colleagues didn't. Without an investigation or even questions being asked, it's impossible to know whether any of them committed illegal acts. The issue is that some of the same allegations that led to Siegelman's indictment never merited so much as a follow-up when raised in connection with Republicans...