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The American Heart Association recommends aspirin use for patients who’ve had a myocardial infarction (heart attack), unstable angina, ischemic stroke (caused by blood clot) or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs or “little strokes”), if not contraindicated. This recommendation is based on sound evidence from clinical trials showing that aspirin helps prevent the recurrence of such events [...]

Heatstroke is a serious condition that occurs when the body is unable to control its temperature due to excessive heat. Body temperature rises sharply, causing hyperthermia (body temperature greatly above normal) and dehydration (loss of water from the body).
In normal circumstances, the body controls temperature by disposing of heat through the skin, mainly by sweating. [...]

Two health centers in the Worcester public schools, at Worcester East Middle School and Norrback Avenue Elementary School, were closed for the entire school year. Four others — at Doherty Memorial High School, North High School, Burncoat Middle/High School and Worcester Technical High School — were closed for portions of the past school year.
“We really [...]

The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

For the Fucigna family of Hopkinton, skiing is truly a family affair.
The parents started skiing for recreational purposes in the mountains of New Hampshire. Then along came daughters, Alex, Sarah, Erin and Abby, and their son, Peter, who were all introduced to the sport.
The daughters all become competitive skiers and Peter plans to follow in [...]

WAS a weekend for the McCallum family out at Machrihanish Golf Club and the late Councillor ‘Baldie’ McCallum would have been proud of them all.
The winning team of the Am-Am contained one of his sons and grandson – Dougie and Kevin McCallum, along with John McKinlay and Donnie McLean, who won the first prize at [...]

As the presidential campaign debate over health care intensified, I heard from seven different friends with the same problem: They had loved ones who had recently moved and, like many others across the U.S., could not find a primary care doctor. Three were in Washington where, according to 2006 data from the Department of Health, [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]

A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

Take four Italian brothers raised in the restaurant business, home-cooked Italian recipes, four busy locations in Orlando and what is the end result? Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria with locations in Oviedo, Winter Park, Lake Mary and Orlando.
Brothers Krist, Jozef, Michael and Frank Nikollaj collectively run the area restaurants along with the start of the [...]