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That point was driven home dramatically to Cindy Nelson, a Texas bookkeeper. At age 29 she had a total hysterectomy, which prematurely deprived her of estrogen. Ten years later, she suffered two heart attacks within a month. Says she: "I never thought it would happen...
Neither did emergency room doctors, who initially diagnosed Nelson's problem as bronchitis. Women heart patients charge that doctors often fail to respond with the same alacrity to their cardiac symptoms as to those of male patients. Dr. Peter Jones of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, agrees. "If a young woman under 60 came into an emergency room with chest pains," he says, "she would not be taken seriously as a heart attack patient." Loyola's Malloy suggests that women must be more assertive about their heart concerns. "If you have unexplained chest pains," she says, "start with...
...rights, anti-gay former football player in the White House, are attracted to his concern for the inner cities. They like his ideas about empowerment and enterprise zones. In general, he's seen as caring, a quality the Republicans have been in short supply of since the days of Nelson A. Rockefeller...
...SAKE OF VIOlence" brought by an African National Congress commission of inquiry was not the familiar litany of human- rights abuses aimed at the usual target, the South African government. Instead the report detailed violence and torture within the A.N.C. itself. The inquiry was ordered by A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela to settle allegations by former detainees of atrocities committed against them by the A.N.C.'s security department in its detention camps. Conceding that the abuses had violated the A.N.C.'s own code of conduct, Mandela promised the report would be considered "as a matter of grave urgency...
...case that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on November 30, another worker, Scott Nelson, will seek redress for torture in Saudi Arabia that left him permanently disabled...