Those bacteria can increase the chances of a heart attack or stroke and worsen the effects of other diseases.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Masses of these monocytes leave the spleen in the event of an injury like a heart attack, wound,or infection.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Another likely cause is a problem within the body's defenses against disease, when the defenses misunderstand signals and attack the body.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

One day, the insects' love of sweets caused them to attack a ship that was bringing sugar to the camp.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Clots can block the flow of blood to the heart or brain and cause a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The experts said people with an increased risk of a heart attack should take a low-strength aspirin every day.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

As he got closer to Washington, he was warned that a mob was planning to attack the train.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The researchers said the hair cortisol levels were a better predictor of heart attack than established risk factors like high blood pressure.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

Russia objects. But the United States says the system would protect Europe from a possible attack by Iran.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Many people take aspirin to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke from blood clots.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Sadly,its leader Alex Chilton died of a heart attack on the first day of the music festival.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

She was accused of causing the man to attack her and sent to a prison for children.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

The company said it was targeted last month by a major Internet attack launched from China.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

I'm Steve Ember. Germany's attack on Poland and the start of World War Two in Europe presented a problem for Americans in September of nineteen-thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

It was covered with writing. Many people thought it was a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, telling him the colonists fled the island after an Indian attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

They would cross the river a little downstream, turn and attack.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

International investigators have blamed a North Korean submarine for the attack.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

She was shot through the brain. Police believe she was the main target of the attack -- the first shooting of a member of Congress in more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

"We estimate in WHO that over thirty million lives can be saved in the next ten years by simple measures -- reducing the level of salt by fifteen to twenty percent, reducing the amount of tobacco, and increasing the number of people who are at risk of a heart attack and stroke to be on simple preventive treatment."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

The attack was directed at a group of Taliban insurgents who had seized two trucks carrying fuel for international forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

A similar missile attack in the neighboring South Waziristan border region in early August killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baituallah Mehsud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14