| Women Often Miss Subtle Heart Attack Symptoms
CLEVELAND -- Most women are concerned about diseases such as breast cancer, but some have no idea that heart disease kills far more women than cancer does. Television station WEWS looked at how women are different from men when it comes to heart attacks. Everyone seems to love Ken Drain, including his wife, Jennie, who has always worried about his risk for a heart attack, the station reported. Even he worried about it. .
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A ccording to this story, Jenna Bush has the highest approval rating of any president in 30 years, in spite of Gulf War VI," a resident of a Bay Area nursing home reads aloud from the newspaper to his companions after naptime. The year is 2022, and you're on Chapter 1 of Tim Sandlin's tragicomic satire, "Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty." If you're laughing, you'll love this book, which pokes stiletto-sharp fun at the boomer generation while taking seriously its idealistic hope that change is (still) possible. Everyman protagonist Guy Fontaine is neither hippie nor veteran, perfectly poised to observe the stoners and protesters now living with catheters and in wheelchairs, suffering the slings and arrows of age in Mission Pescadero, a pricey facility commanded by a fortysomething dictator who treats these elderly citizens -- many accomplished, most grandparents, some still smoking dope daily and tripping on weekends -- as unruly, ungrateful children.
People's Pharmacy: Mixing Lipitor, alcohol is risky
Dear People's Pharmacy: My husband is 55 years old, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He has been on Lipitor for two years. His LDL (bad cholesterol) is still above 210. He hasn't changed his diet of bacon cheeseburgers, steak, french fries, cookies and ice cream, and has two or three drinks a day because he read that this might help lower cholesterol. I thought alcohol should be limited for someone who is taking Lipitor, but his physician has mentioned neither diet nor alcohol. Can you give him some advice as to a healthy diet and recommended alcohol intake? Answer: Lipitor is a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug but is no substitute for a sensible diet. The manufacturer clearly states that Lipitor is to be used in addition to a low-fat diet, exactly the opposite of your husband's eating habits.
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