Word: stroke
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...DIED. PATRICK LICHFIELD, 66, society photographer and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. After inheriting a title he never used, the 5th Earl of Lichfield quit the army in 1962 for a career as a fashion photographer during London's "Swinging Sixties." Lichfield's glossy lifestyle, high-profile romantic liaisons and 1986 divorce never cost him the loyalty of the Royal Family, which employed him to take many official portraits...
DIED. LORD LICHFIELD, 66, dashing photographer of Britain's élite; after a stroke; in London...
...alum—John M. Hallowell ’63—is one of these unlikely personalities. He drops names from his stint with Life magazine in the 1960s in slightly stroke-slurred speech...
...Administration advises expectant mothers to cut down on the caffeine they consume. --Blood pressure is measured by a ratio of two numbers. For years, doctors thought the bottom number, which measures blood pressure between beats, was more important in determining a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke. But new research shows that even a slightly elevated top number, which measures pressure when the heart is contracting, can be just as deadly...
...ideas, as expressed in court. “You’d have to ask him that yourself,” said Avorn. “The evidence is incontrovertible. Merck [the company that manufactures Vioxx] itself admitted that it found a doubling of heart attack and stroke in Vioxx users in a randomized trial it conducted. That’s why it took the drug off the market.”Gaziano, a cardiologist who has never done Vioxx research, said he feels the evidence is insufficient and that more research is needed.“I don?...