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...years, Raymond Hilson thought the infection that left him disfigured was just a stroke of very bad luck. Today he thinks it could have been worse. A school-bus driver from Colfax, Wis., Hilson, now 73, underwent heart-bypass surgery in 1994 at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. At first the procedure seemed to have gone well. But Hilson contracted a severe staph infection. To treat it, doctors "kept cutting back the flesh and bone," he recalls, until his entire sternum was removed, leaving his beating heart visible just under the skin...
...disease, you will have to go back to the basics: exercise, eat right and watch your weight. You should also find out if you have high blood pressure or diabetes and get treated if you do; both conditions are known to increase one's risk of heart disease or stroke, and there is growing evidence that they may have more subtle effects on thinking and memory as well. Adopting a healthy lifestyle may not be as easy as popping a pill, but the effects are much longer lasting...
Former University professor and renowned art historian Ernst Kitzinger died of a stroke in his Poughkeepsie, N.Y. home...
...continued to work for three years after his first stroke. Since that time, Margaret Rawls and other colleagues have continued to compile and edit his partially competed works...
...pretty exciting for us,” Baizer said after the tournament. “Each stroke really counted in this tournament. The best part was how we played better [on Sunday compared to Saturday]. Last year, a lot of our scores were higher the second...