Acute coronary syndrome may develop slowly over time by the building up of plaques in the arteries in your heart.

CNN: Acute coronary syndrome

The concern from the FDA is over a heart rhythm abnormality called long QT syndrome.

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SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, casts a menacing shadow over the first half of the book, which adds to the general impression of poverty and gloom.

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The syndrome was discovered by Dr Nobuo Kurokawa who, over the last 10 years, has been treating a steady flow of Japanese middle-aged women with the same symptoms.

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People with Down syndrome are not flying planes across the globe to hang out over pu-erh and discuss the finer points of Western culture in a language all their own.

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It said over a third of the population regularly suffer from digestive illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, diarrhoea, stomach-aches, nausea and sickness.

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The debate over assisted suicide has resurfaced after Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome, died a week after losing a legal bid to end his life.

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Unless Dugard was kept under lock and key for the entire 18 years of her captivity, over the next few days, certainly there will be an abundance of pieces about Stockholm syndrome and wondering why she didn't ask for help before...

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The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) had barely become public knowledge this year before scientists the world over were scrambling to identify the new ill.

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