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Like 500,000 other Americans each year, Lee was suffering a stroke. Something had cut off the flow of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to a portion of her brain. Sometimes the culprit is a leaky artery. But in Phillips' case, as in 80% of strokes, the problem, revealed by a CAT scan, was a clot that was plugging up one of the blood vessels in her head. Unless the clot was dislodged, part of her brain would die, leaving her at least partly paralyzed...
Because Phillips arrived at the emergency room so soon after her stroke began, the doctors offered her an experimental treatment. They injected her with a drug called TPA, which dissolved the clot and quickly re-established normal blood flow to her brain. Phillips recovered so completely, in fact, that it seemed as if the stroke had never happened. She left the hospital after four days, her speech normal and any trace of paralysis gone...
...stroke victims who are treated quickly enough, however, TPA can literally give them back their life. Four weeks ago, Dr. Virendra Bisla, 49, was in a hospital outside Chicago, making rounds, when he suddenly found himself leaning against the wall. "The nurses kept asking me if I was all right," the cardiologist recalls. But even though Bisla could understand everything they said, he couldn't respond. They wheeled him to the emergency room, where doctors determined that he was suffering a stroke. Soon after, they transferred him to the specialized stroke center at the University of Illinois, where...
Everyone has many terrible vows to keep, many beautiful secrets to reveal. Venal jailers stroke their fancy mustaches. The sound effects are volcanic: a slap stings like a bullwhip. Benazir goes mad, her daughter grows up to be a race-car driver, the policeman's daughter becomes a cop and helps track down Habibullah's brother (who spits out his evil threats on a cellular phone--suddenly we're in today's India), and everything climaxes in an Armageddon of gunplay. With music...
...simple urine test may soon be available for HEART DISEASE. According to a new study, patients with protein in their urine are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those without. Protein shows up when arteries in the kidneys are leaky, suggesting that arterial damage may exist elsewhere in the body--including the heart...