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...drive home and call Lionel, which gives me the names of two catalog companies. Both places are sold out until the new year, although a customer-service manager chirpily tells me that if I'm patient, she will send me a free holiday boxcar with Santa on top to put under the tree. Frantic, I dial hobby shops across the country. Nobody has the train, and some owners share theories why. Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back...
...Among the latest: a single epidural injection that delivers 48 hours of time-released morphine; a portable balloon pump that delivers a continuous supply of a local anesthetic directly to the wound site; and a transdermal patch the size of a credit card that is as effective as a patient-controlled pump but doesn't require a needle and tubes...
...sinister thing about hypertension is that most of the creeping harm it does happens without the patient's knowing it. People with malignant hypertension may experience such symptoms as headaches or coldness in the hands and feet, but they also may not. People with less severe hypertension may experience nothing at all until calamity strikes. One of the commonest of those pressure-related disasters is heart attack. The higher pressure climbs, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly...
What to do when any patient--child or adult--has hypertension varies from case to case, but some steps are obvious. Smoking, which is potentially lethal for everyone, is poison for the hypertensive. Tobacco accelerates heart rate and constricts blood vessels, just what you want to do if you're trying to make a hypertension problem worse but a lousy idea if you want to get well...
...play soundly and develop good results from a good position,” he says. “I used to be more wild and try to force the pace, but now I’m more patient. In the early days emotions were more a part of my game...