Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little less than an hour later, the incident ended when a Serb officer arrived to calm down his men, and the Canadians pulled out of the checkpoint. Back at their base, the 11 soldiers were given a "critical-incident-stress debriefing" and 48 hours off -- all standard procedure, said Petrokilis...
...physical mechanism linking heart attacks and stress may have been found, a discovery that could ultimately help prevent heart attacks. Mental stress seems to make blood platelets release the chemical atp into the bloodstream, and atp produces blood clots, a major cause of heart attacks...
Those who oppose such treatment appear to have reasons other than medical for denying motherhood to older women. When doctors in London refused to treat Jennifer F., they told her that they believed she was too old to face the stress of being a mother. In defending the decision, the British Secretary of Health said, "There are deep ethical considerations, and the child's welfare must be considered. A child has a right to a suitable home...
...Thomas was gone. Ann, still weak from the encounter, "crawled over to the telephone and called my doctor's office and demanded to speak to him right that minute. I told him something had happened, and I was cured, and I didn't need surgery. He told me stress and fear were causing me to say things I didn't mean...
...likely to happen," says Steven Nagler of the Yale Child Studies Center. Adds Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC): "There are going to be outrageous acts that even the most cautious of families will not be able to prevent." The specialists stress two things: there is little protection against kidnapper-murderers, but fortunately there are few of them. The vast majority (several hundred thousand a year) of child snatchings are perpetrated by family members in custody disputes. According to the well-respected 1990 Justice Department report National Incidence Studies on Missing, Abducted...