Word: heartful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker and Shevardnadze meet in Vienna with foreign ministers from 33 other nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...
MEDICINE: A heart treatment's value is questioned...
...study finds that artery-inflating balloon angioplasty is unnecessary if a heart-attack patient is given a clot-dissolving drug. -- Snuffing the common cold...
When people have a heart attack today, they are likely to be given powerful drugs to dissolve the clots that block the flow of blood to the cardiac muscle. But the drugs are generally used only to buy time until invasive procedures can be performed. These include angiography, the injection of a material into the coronary arteries to identify by X ray the 1 patient in 6 apt to have another attack; and balloon angioplasty, the threading into a blocked artery of a catheter with a tiny balloon on the end that presses plaque against the artery wall and widens...
...controversial study has emerged to challenge this conventional treatment. Published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, it concludes that immediate angiography and angioplasty, both costly and somewhat risky techniques, are unnecessary in most heart-attack cases. The 50-hospital study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and known as TIMI II (for thrombolysis in myocardial infarction phase II trial), involved 3,262 patients who had suffered apparent heart attacks. Within four hours of their attacks, all patients received a powerful clot dissolver, known as TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), along with heparin and aspirin to inhibit blood...