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...refers" the pain of a heart attack, sending it to the neck, jaw or arms. But do you know the second, third or fourth most common sign of a heart attack? You should. As many as a third of all men and women feel no muscle pain when they suffer a heart attack, according to a study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Recognizing the less common signs of a heart attack could save your life or that of someone you love...
...studying a computerized database of more than 430,000 people who suffered heart attacks across the U.S., Canto and his colleagues determined that there are six major risk factors that increase the chances that any heart attack you suffer will be atypical: having a weak heart (from congestive heart disease), diabetes or a history of stroke; being 65 or older, female or from a minority group. The increased risk is cumulative: if a 75-year-old black woman has a heart attack, her chances of experiencing chest pain are less than...
Apparently diabetics feel less pain because of nerve damage caused by their condition, but no one knows why women or the elderly are more likely to suffer painless heart attacks...
...suffer fools gladly, Park takes aim at what he calls "pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience and fraudulent science." He has targets aplenty. From homeopathy to therapeutic touch, from UFO myths to cold fusion, from self-deluding scientists to scientifically illiterate legislators, all are subjected to his penetrating critiques. A physics professor at the University of Maryland, and director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society, Park has honed his expository skills in a host of newspaper articles and TV appearances, as well as in his influential weekly e-mail newsletter, What's New. His lucid and often amusing...
...freakish string of injuries (and they are freakish - what are the odds that both Mike Piazza and Alex Rodriguez would suffer concussions in the last weekend before the game?) seem pretty legit; it doesn't look like anyone's faking it just to get out of playing. Except, now that you mention it, it does seem a little strange that Junior Griffey, who played for the Reds Sunday, can participate in the home run derby today but not play tomorrow... although the Kid has for years been famously reluctant to play in the Midsummer Classic - something about wanting to spend...