Word: stroke
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...23rd. He earned his PGA Tour card the next season, but hardly dominated at golf's highest level, finishing the 2000 season 179th on the money list and missing the cut in 15 of 29 events. In December, on the final day of a qualifying tournament, Martin finished one stroke short and lost his Tour card. Now back in the minors, Martin stands 115th...
...they had a heart condition, the answer to that question changed abruptly last week. Impressed by mounting evidence that aggressive treatment can significantly reduce death from heart disease, a panel of experts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued new guidelines for treating high cholesterol. In one stroke, the panel nearly tripled--from 13 million to 36 million--the number of adults who should be taking daily doses of powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs. They also raised by 25%--from 52 million to 65 million--the number who should go on a cholesterol-lowering diet...
With this year’s appearance in NCAAs, senior coxswain Mary Piscitello will become the first Radcliffe competitor to take part in four straight NCAA Championships. In addition, freshman stroke Caryn Davies will become Radcliffe’s second freshman rower to row in the varsity boat at NCAAs...
Gabriele Axthelm's sister was 49 and single when she had a stroke two years ago. Now paralyzed with permanent brain damage, she is in a nursing home that costs $4,600 a month. "We had to sell her house right away," says Axthelm. "We couldn't even rent it in case she got better." Alzheimer's has put her father in a care facility, and her mother, 80, lives in a retirement center. "They put away money for years," says Axthelm. "They are now living off their savings...
More than a generation ago, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer helped millions of Americans get instantly well. In 1973 Spitzer, a professor at Columbia University, led the charge to have homosexuality removed from diagnostic manuals as a mental disorder. In a stroke, a segment of the population once considered sexually deviant was declared mentally sound...