Word: heart
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...going to happen," writes Eric Utne, the journal's founder and the editor of Y2K Citizen's Action Guide. "We're going to get to know our neighbors." And not by stealing their larders at gunpoint, either. Emerging from the pamphlet's lofty talk of "intui-technology," "core heart values" and the "inner-information highway" is a message of love and spirituality that makes one wish it were New Year's Eve tomorrow...
...WINNER Young--and young-at-heart--baseball fans everywhere
Doctors are doing such a good job of saving the lives of heart-attack victims that a whole new problem has surfaced: many of the survivors are left with severely damaged hearts. That has contributed to an increase in cases of congestive heart failure, an often debilitating condition in which the muscle is too weak to pump enough blood to the rest of the body and eventually exhausts itself. This ailment is growing more common not only because of doctors' success in saving heart-attack patients but also because of other factors, including an aging population. What it all adds...
...comes word of new hope in the form of an old prescription drug. In a study of 2,647 patients in the Jan. 2 issue of Lancet, researchers found that treating folks who have mild to moderate heart failure with medications called beta-blockers lowered their risk of death 34% over 15 months compared to patients who did not take the drugs. A yet unpublished study that was presented last November at a meeting of the American Heart Association reached a similar conclusion...
These results come as a bit of a surprise. Although beta-blockers have been used safely for decades to treat hypertension, chest pain and heart attacks, most physicians believed they were too dangerous to give to patients suffering from congestive heart failure...