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Hughes and Dr. J. Philip Kistler, a neurologist heading the Stroke Service, will lead the interdepartmental study...
Although warfarin seems to reduce the incidence of stroke in AF patients, Hughes said the risks for users are not to be dismissed...
...Anyone who goes on [warfarin] may have a hemorrhage," he said. The alternatives are between "suffering a stroke in the control group or possibly bleeding from warfarin, and it's difficult to predict the severity of either one," he added...
...from the Department of Health and Human Services finds that death still comes sooner for blacks and some other minorities than it does for whites. According to the study, of the approximately 60,000 "excess deaths" reported among blacks each year, 18,181 were attributed to heart disease and stroke, 8,118 to cancer, 6,178 to infant mortality, 2,154 to cirrhosis and 1,850 to diabetes...
Nonetheless, with one bold, nonviolent stroke, the U.S. had erased four days of frustration, horror and humiliation, an all-too-familiar progression in the recent history of international terrorism. Once again Arab extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair...