Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Harvard finished fifth, sixth and 12thin its only fall tournaments, there were hints ofpotential. After a nightmarish first day at theDartmouth Invitational, for instance, Harvarderupted in the next round with score of 296, withevery Crimson golfer breaking the 80-stroke mark.That second-day surge boosted Harvard to onlythree points behind league-foe Dartmouth and intoa respectable fifth place in the 12-team field...
...only expectation the lightweight women had going into this season was that we were going to have to work extremely hard to be competitive against each of the teams we raced," said captain and stroke Amy Mecklenburg...
...years pediatricians didn't worry much about treating hypertension in their patients. After all, kids grow so fast, it's hard keeping up with their shoe size, let alone their blood pressure. Sure, hypertension in adults places them at greater risk of heart attack and stroke. But nobody likes the idea of starting youngsters on blood-pressure medicine they could wind up taking the rest of their lives. Who knows what previously unheard-of side effects could crop up after five or six decades of daily use? The rationale has been: kids grow out of so many things, maybe they...
RETHINKING THINNERS Anticoagulants are commonly given within 24 hours of a stroke to limit brain damage. But do they help? After three months, most patients who took them were no better off than those who didn...
...trial in an international court. Many who had trafficked with him--the Chinese, the Thais, the former Khmer Rouge cadres now running the government in Phnom Penh--had good reason to prefer his death to a revealing trial. But the 73-year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe houses near the Thai border to avoid shelling. As government forces aided by growing legions of Khmer...