Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dawson, who was the King's doctor, disclosed that the monarch was actually put to death by lethal injections of morphine and cocaine, administered as he lay dying at the royal residence of Sandringham. Dawson's notes say the King's death was induced not only to ease his pain but to enable the news to make the morning papers, "rather than the less appropriate evening journals...
...study presented in Dallas by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions appears to bear him out. The Hopkins team, led by Cardiologist Sidney Gottlieb, examined 103 heartattack patients who seemed to be recovering without complications or pain and found that 30 were having ischemic episodes. One year later nine (30%) of these people had died from heart attacks. Of the 73 without silent ischemia, only eight (11%) had suffered fatal heart attacks. "If you have had a heart attack and you have ischemia," Gottlieb concluded, "you may have a three times greater risk of dying...
Ischemia occurs when coronary arteries partly clogged with fatty deposits of plaque suddenly contract in spasms or are blocked by a clot, depriving the heart muscle of blood and thus oxygen. While painful or "noisy" ischemia (angina) often results from physical stress, like climbing stairs, even slight exertions, like balancing a checkbook, can trigger silent ischemia. During these episodes, which typically last a few minutes but can go on for ten hours, large portions of heart muscle can be damaged. Yet in more than 75% of all cases, for still unknown reasons, the victim feels no pain...
...many doctors will not yet order the test. "There is still a school of thought that believes, 'No pain, no worry,' " says Peter Cohn, chief of cardiology at the State University of New York's Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook. He recommends annual testing only for people who are at risk because of diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure or a family history of heart disease. Healthy people not at risk probably should not be concerned, he says. Men at risk should begin testing between the ages of 35 and 40; women...
...already due, work that they blew off all day, work that they aren't doing, work that they should be doing because if they don't do it now they surely will fail everything and not get into graduate school and have a horrible poverty-striken life with a pain-in-the-butt spouse and lots of ugly slimy kids whose faces will melt...