Word: vascularized
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...last Friday, the team physicians found that the injury was not just vascular, but also involved a damaged respiratory nerve center at the base of Hevern's neck...
...their 21 years together. Now Barnard has announced that he has written a new book, Heart Attack, aimed at "helping the heart sufferer toward a better comprehension of his disease." Simultaneously, Louwtjie announced that she, too, has written a study of heart problems -though ones not necessarily connected with vascular stress. "It's a message of hope to all the women in the world who find themselves in a similar position to mine," she said of her forthcoming autobiography. The title: Heart Break...
...rate of aging and to extend vigorous life by at least 15 years will be discovered within the next two decades. This extension would be in addition to the roughly five-to-seven-year increase in average life expectancy that will take place when medicine conquers cancer and vascular diseases...
...some cases the Pill raises an unstable blood pressure so abruptly and severely as to cause a blowout in a brain artery-the hemorrhagic type of stroke. Another vascular disturbance is the migraine headache, which results from dilation of peripheral arteries in the head. Any woman who has ever had migraines is likely to find that they strike more often and more severely after she goes on the Pill. Others may suffer their first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis...
...Cordice's chosen specialty was thoracic surgery. No U.S. school was willing to train him, and he had to go to Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply...