Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heartbeats.) The 30 to 45 wounds on the outside of the heart close up almost instantly, with help from pressure by the surgeon's finger. But the channels created inside the muscle remain open--at least for a little while. Patients have reported feeling immediate relief from chest pain, probably because blood seeps up the laser channels and nourishes the oxygen-starved heart muscle...
...lasers were first used for the treatment in the mid-'80s, researchers believed the channels remained open. Apparently not. It is now thought that the drilling provokes new blood-vessel growth where the laser burns a hole. (Others suggest the angina may be eased simply because the laser numbs pain-sensing nerves of the heart.) Scar tissue from the laser holes seems minimal...
...laser therapy provides short-term relief for severe angina. Some studies suggest longer-term benefits. One found that almost three years after tmr, patients who had the worst form of angina (class IV, the kind that wakes you up at night) could maintain on average class I or II (pain with exertion only...
...ROYAL PAIN...
...neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy Gilmore, Sandler kills his dad with an errant slap shot. The films' running gag is of an innocent bystander getting clobbered by a sharp object. Pain is funny, if it's not yours. And the star can do anything, because he's our guy. In short, an Adam Sandler comedy is very like an early Jim Carrey comedy...