Word: stroke
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Heart attack, stroke or cancer. Take your pick. That was the choice I was being offered, or so it seemed. I'm one of hundreds of patients who were participating in clinical trials to investigate whether COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex and Vioxx, commonly used as anti-inflammatory drugs, are also effective in fighting or preventing cancer. But the trials were halted last year after reports that the risk of heart attack or stroke doubled among a group of Vioxx users. Vioxx was summarily yanked from the market and the tort lawyers immediately canceled lunch. Celebrex was also implicated...
...Everyone’s looking forward rather than back,” varsity stroke Adam Kosmicki said. “Nobody cares about what happened last year except the guys who are gone...
...When you’re down, you have to maintain confidence,” said junior varsity stroke Dan Reid, “or else that’s just not good racing...
...When you’re down, you have to maintain confidence,” said junior varsity stroke Dan Reid, “or else that’s just not good racing...
...Another stroke of luck: the hospital had just received a fresh supply of blood, which was vital for Salah, who had lost so much that he needed a transfusion. By the time the rest of the TIME Baghdad staff was alerted and arrived at the hospital, the ER workers had done what they do best: stopped the blood loss and patched up the wounds. The ancient X-ray machine revealed that Abu Karam and Salah had many pieces of shrapnel lodged in their bodies, but there were no serious internal wounds...