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This year, some 550,000 Americans will learn that they have congestive heart failure. While that might sound like a death sentence--particularly if you fixate on the word failure--it's not. Cardiologists have got pretty good at treating the degenerative condition with drugs that prolong life and reduce symptoms...
Allowing those sentiments to take root in an independent Palestine will only prolong the war between Arabs and Israelis, further imperil the existence of the Jewish homeland and create more enemies of the U.S. That is one reason the Administration is trying so hard to find a pathway to peace. Its strategy is still coming into focus. Says a senior White House aide: "We're in an atmosphere where everyone is waiting for someone else to go first." The first big breakthrough Powell needs is to convince Sharon and Arafat that they can wait no longer. --With reporting by Matt...
...good. Now comes the part that seems illogical. You would think that early detection of cancer would increase a man's chances of being cured and therefore prolong his life. But not all prostate cancers are equally deadly. Indeed, most men, if they live long enough, will eventually develop prostate cancer. But most don't die from it. "Perhaps 10% to 15% of prostate cancers are very benign," says Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan, president of the American Urological Association. "Another 10% to 15% are very aggressive." It's hardest to predict what will happen to the middle...
Scientists aim to save and prolong life with their honorable quests, from curing cancer to encouraging Americans to eat less at Burger King. Yet while everyone knows that fast food is unhealthy, few remember the researchers that pored over test tubes, assays and cultures to prove that bacon-and-cheese sandwiches are a shortcut to heart disease...
...announced that breast-cancer patients who participated in support groups coped better and lived longer than those who didn't. The only problem: the subjects were almost all upper-middle-class white women in California. A larger, more comprehensive study now shows that support groups do not, in fact, prolong life--which may come as a relief to women who felt compelled to join them. But the sessions do help patients control pain and overcome the depression and anxiety that often accompany a breast-cancer diagnosis...