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...measure of circulatory health has been turned on its head. On Thursday, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued an advisory for health care providers who take patients' blood pressure: Watch the top number more than the bottom one. That's a reversal of conventional wisdom, which dictated that the bottom figure, for diastolic pressure, was the more important indicator of blood pressure because it showed how hard the heart was working to refill itself with blood between pumps. With this new recommendation, the NHLBI focuses attention on systolic pressure - the top figure...
...have to eat a healthy diet for a long time. ("Think of it this way," says Dr. Steven Zeisel, a nutrition expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not involved in either study. "When you stop smoking, you don't immediately lower your risk of lung cancer. It can take 10 years to see a difference.") Or maybe fiber doesn't prevent colon cancer...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of history and political science emeritus and a world-renowned expert on the history of the Soviet Union, died of lung cancer Tuesday at Youville Hospital in Cambridge...
...late 1970s, and Sterling Lung, 26, the son of Chinese immigrants, believes he has struggled free from the clutches of his parents' old-fashioned expectations. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where, he says, he was named "most likely to serve," Sterling is the chef at the Richfield Ladies' Club in green and tastefully affluent Connecticut. When one of the ladies praises his ponytail and guesses that he wears it in honor of his forebears back in China, Sterling muses, "My forebears? Think Beatles, Jerry Garcia...
...nearly three hours before Nathan finally made it to the operating table. A team led by Dr. Brett Williams--summoned from his own 45th-birthday celebration--put the right side of Nathan's heart into cardiac arrest, diverted his blood supply to the heart-lung machine and began repairing the damage. "There was absolutely no blood anywhere. It looked to be an immaculate perforation," Williams told TIME...