Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know you should eat your vegetables. You know they help protect you against cancer and heart disease. But if you're like most Americans, you've heard only half the message. Vegetable consumption has jumped 20% in the U.S. over the past quarter-century, according to a study in last week's issue of Cancer. Trouble is, we're still not eating enough of the leafy green vegetables, like spinach, brussels sprouts and broccoli, that do the most to promote good health. Instead half of all the vegetable servings we consume are potatoes--and half of those are French fries...
...floor up, a woman crouches, shaking, at a window. Her husband entered the hospital for what she thought would be a "1-2-3" heart-valve operation. There were "complications," and he is back in the operating room. Baker fetches tissues and asks if they can pray. She says yes. He crouches by her in the dark hallway. He prays for God's presence and for the surgeon's hand...
...year-old heart-attack victim is given less than a 5% chance of surviving. Outside her room, Ohman examines a box belonging to the patient. It's filled with nutritional supplements. There are medications that could have prevented her heart attack; none are in the box. "This is a sign we have failed," says Ohman...
Each room the doctors visit is a living lesson in modern medicine. In 7213 the heart of a 71-year-old woman is pumping a dangerously low volume of blood. "What is the right therapy?" asks Ohman. They agree that a drug is required to slow the beat, giving the woman's heart more time to fill. Right, pronounces Ohman. Which drug? They stumble with answers until Ohman says it's Esmolol. That surprises one of the young physicians. Esmolol, he notes, could cost as much as $200 a day, while alternatives can be had for $1.50 a pill. Ohman...
...many smokers on the heart unit. Ben Blalock, 65, not only smokes tobacco, he also grows it. Tobacco, he says, has been his family's ticket out of poverty. He simply doesn't buy the health warnings. His heart problems, he says, are inherited from his "mother's people...