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...women with the same condition may also exhibit different symptoms. During a heart attack, men usually feel pain in the chest or left arm, but 20% of women have pain in the upper abdomen or back, shortness of breath, nausea and sweating...
Even some basic bodily responses are different. Men often react to pain with a rise in blood pressure, but women may experience a rise in heart rate--and sometimes even a blood-pressure drop. Yet after surgery, doctors often gauge levels of pain by blood pressure, not heart rate. --By Sora Song
...night before he died, Kile told his brother he was tired and his right shoulder hurt. Unexplained pain that lasts more than five minutes in either arm or anywhere in the chest, jaw, neck or back can be a sign of a life-threatening heart problem. Was it just Kile's pitching arm acting up or a hint that something most serious was wrong? We will never know...
...according to a source with access to intelligence on the al-Qaeda leader's health, a group of physicians has hypothesized, after analyzing bin Laden's appearance in photographs over time, that he also suffers from the related problem of secondary osteoporosis. This condition can produce crippling back pain, and it makes for brittle bones that can easily snap with ordinary slips or falls, not to mention the hard knocks that can come from scampering in and out of hideaways while on the run. --By Lisa Beyer
...euro to Islamic civilization. One of their baldest blunders came last week from Interior Minister Claudio Scajola, 54, who was pressured to resign after two newspaper reporters quoted him referring to Marco Biagi - a labor ministry adviser assassinated in March by the Red Brigades terrorist group - as a "pain in the ass." Scajola, under fire for not having provided Biagi with a security detail, suggested the victim had been interested only in extending his government consulting contract. Through a mixture of shrugs and subterfuge, the Berlusconi government usually manages to skate past these lapses in taste. But with Scajola...