Word: stroke
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...where, at the very least, some thought should go. "The Cross is at the center of Christianity, and we know that it was at the center of Jesus' own thinking," says John Stott, an Anglican preacher and the author of The Cross of Christ, who suffered a stroke last year. "I could never myself believe in God if it were not for the Cross." He is almost pleading. "In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune...
...trial of more than 4,000 patients showed that those who started taking Lipitor instead of Pravachol within a week or so after being hospitalized for a heart attack or unstable angina had a 16% lower rate of getting worse--dying, suffering a subsequent heart attack or stroke, or requiring bypass surgery. But the seemingly obvious conclusion is not necessarily the right one. Here...
Well, yes and no. Two years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...
...higher stroke risk was comparable to what researchers had seen for the estrogen-progestin combo. Even at that, the increase was rather slight--about 8 additional strokes per 10,000 women. "Women should not feel this is some grand emergency for them," says Dr. Barbara Alving, director...
...latter, Harvard led from the first stroke, sustaining Cromwell’s blistering initial pace in the backstroke for a 4.34-second victory...