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Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate, has survived three (mild) heart attacks and one coronary bypass surgery. And while the appointment of the older and more experienced Cheney is being touted as adding "gravitas" to Bush's campaign, the presumptive veep candidate's health history adds a different note of seriousness that the Republican ticket may find difficult to dismiss...
...hasn't always been smooth sailing. By 1989, Cheney had suffered three mild heart attacks, and has since undergone coronary bypass surgery. However, he has had several years of robust health, and while time-consuming, Cheney's medical setbacks did not affect the path of his political career...
Traditionally, nonprescription drugs have been limited to treating mild and temporary conditions like headaches and heartburn. But the FDA is weighing the possibility of letting stores sell medicines that treat symptomless lifetime conditions like high cholesterol and osteoporosis--as many other Western nations do. The agency could go so far as to make birth-control pills and antibiotics as accessible as aspirin. That's too far for some critics, who express concern about our nonchalant, pill-popping approach to medicines. Does anyone even read a label? they...
...Stage 1: Mild From two to four years...
With Hafez Assad's death, the spotlight turns to his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered ophthalmologist and perhaps the most unlikely political heir among the new generation of Arab leaders who have started assuming power in the Middle East. Indeed, Bashar's older brother Basil, a daring, charismatic figure, had been favored to follow in their father's footsteps until he was killed in a traffic accident...