Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's always a big boost, when it's the bases-loaded like that and you get out with no runs," junior Aaron Kessler said. "You're feelin' great and just go in and stroke the sticks...
Talk of Koskovich's family brings out a variety of emotions from Clayton, the EMT. "That grandmother is going to have a stroke dealing with this," she says. "She's got so many kids she's raising in that house. There are four or five different families in there. Someone should track down the mother and make her take some responsibility." Mention of Tom's uncle Lenny Koskovich provokes a different response. "He's got a rap sheet that's as long as Scott Road. He is one bad man," says Clayton. The uncle is now serving his latest sentence...
...killer headache may actually kill. Middle-age migraine sufferers may have twice the risk of STROKE compared with their headache-free peers--even when there's no other predisposing factor, like hypertension or smoking. Why? Researchers suspect that the same brain chemicals may be at work in both migraine and stroke...
Blair's comfortable upbringing means his politics aren't grounded in the old class resentments that animated Labour leaders before him. Yet he has known heartbreak and hardship. When Tony was only 11, his father, a law professor, suffered a serious stroke just as he was about to run for Parliament as a Conservative. With his father disabled, Blair received scholarship help to attend a tony prep school in Scotland. He did well enough there to pass the tough exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most...
...Depressing news about depression. A 29-year study finds that CLINICALLY DEPRESSED adults may face a 50% increased risk of dying from stroke. Depression--which is treatable--may somehow alter blood-platelet activity, which in turn may trigger clot formation...