It is almost impossible for some of them to get health care because they've already had maybe a heart attack, maybe they've had an incident of cancer, maybe they've had some sort of other preexisting condition that makes insurers want to shy away from them.

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First, using antibiotics to treat an atherosclerotic patient who has had one heart attack reduces the risk of his suffering a second. (Rheumatoid arthritis, the most common arthritic variety, also responds to antibiotics in some patients, leading researchers to suspect that it, too, may sometimes be provoked by bacteria.) Second, research has come up with the glimmer of a mechanism.

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At first it was said he had suffered a heart attack, but a second post-mortem examination found that he had died of an abdominal haemorrhage.

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So she called 911, and within minutes the paramedics came, gave her an EKG, told her she'd had a heart attack, and whisked her off to the hospital.

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It was another big NIH study, the Women's Health Initiative, that showed that an estrogen-replacement therapy had unforeseen risks of breast cancer and heart attack.

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Mr Walker's comments come in the wake of news that a Norfolk man who had a heart attack on Sunday had to wait three hours for an ambulance to arrive.

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Translation: I had inherited two bad copies of the genetic misfire, so my risk of an early heart attack--a myocardial infarction--is 70% greater than for the general population.

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Clopidogrel is FDA-approved to treat patients who have had a recent heart attack or a recent stroke, or have partial or total blockage of an artery (peripheral artery disease).

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After an awful first year, Allison ended up commiserating with the widow of a friend who had suddenly died of a heart attack.

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