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...Worried about coronary disease? Take heart. Doctors may have isolated a new risk factor for HEART DISEASE and stroke that's simple to pick up with a blood test: chronic inflammation of the arteries. Men with high levels of inflammation may have three times the risk of heart attack and double the chance of a stroke...
DIED. HAROLD MELVIN, 57, leader of the Blue Notes, the gospel-tinted rhythm-and-blues ensemble best known for its onetime lead singer Teddy Pendergrass and its achingly mournful 1972 hit If You Don't Know Me by Now; probably of a stroke; in Philadelphia...
...career journalist whose wit, flair and savoir vivre became personal trademarks, Bauby saw his fast-paced life come to an abrupt end on Dec. 8, 1995, with the stroke that left him paralyzed. Though Bauby was dependent on hospital staff and machinery for all his bodily functions, his brain remained unscathed. He soon discovered that the only muscle still under his control was his left eyelid. By telegraphing a series of blinks, Bauby let his nurses know that his mind was alive and well inside its immobile frame. They responded by reciting a special alphabet to him with the understanding...
...June 1996, Bauby blinked out a letter to some 60 friends and associates to reassure them that his state was not vegetative. Editors at French publisher Robert Laffont, who had worked with Bauby before his stroke, were so impressed that they proposed he use the method to write a book about his condition. Bauby accepted and, composing and editing his prose before dawn, dictated entire sections of the book from memory, letter by letter, to Laffont employee Claude Mendibil...
...joys--of the locked-in life. Bemoaning his fruitless "physical rehabilitation" sessions, for example, Bauby writes, "I would be the happiest man in the world if I could just properly swallow the saliva that permanently invades my mouth." He lets his readers know that his celebrated wit survived the stroke by pointing up the ironic aspects of his condition. Bauby recalls a contract he signed before his illness to write an updated version of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo--a tale involving a paralyzed protagonist who communicates by blinking. "The gods of literature and neurology decided...