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Eating as little as a quarter of an ounce of chocolate each day -- an amount equal to about one small Easter egg -- may lower your risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke, a new study has found. For best results, the chocolate should be dark, experts say. "Dark chocolate exhibits the greatest effects, milk chocolate fewer, and white chocolate no effects," says the lead author of the study, Brian Buijsse, a nutritional epidemiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition, in Nuthetal, Germany. In the study, Buijsse and his colleagues followed nearly 20,000 people for an average...

A bowler collapsed and died at a bowling alley shortly after rolling the third perfect game of his life. Ed Lorenz, 69, bowled a 300 on Wednesday in his first league game of the night at Airway Lanes. When the retiree got up to bowl in the fifth frame of his second game, he clutched his chest and fell over, and efforts to revive him failed. The cause of death wasn't immediately known. "If he could have written a way to go out, this would be it," said Johnny D Masters, who was bowling with Lorenz.

Source: American College Of Chest Physicians Date: 2003-10-30 Aspirin Withdrawal May Pose Risk To Coronary Patients (Orlando, Florida, October 29, 2003) -- Patients with coronary artery disease who stop taking aspirin may be at risk for developing withdrawal-related coronary events, says a new study presented at CHEST 2003, the 69th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). The study found that previously stable coronary patients experienced coronary events, including unstable angina and myocardial infarction (heart attack), within one week of aspirin withdrawal. "The benefits of aspirin therapy in coronary patients are well known. However, the...

The term Nanobacteria is short for its scientific genus & species name Nanobacterium sanguineum, a Latin scientific term that means blood nanobacteria. Nanobacteria are nano-sized in that they are from 20-200 nanometers in size and are the smallest known self-replicating bacteria (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter and is approximately the width of ten hydrogen atoms side-to-side) Nanobacterium sanguineum is recognized as an emerging infectious disease. Nanobacteria have been shown to cause the calcification in coronary artery disease and vascular disease atherosclerotic plaque. (Miller V, et al, Mayo Clinic, Journal American College of Cardiology, March 2002 & Submitted...

BOSTON (AP) _ A man who suffered a heart attack on a commuter train and had to wait about 20 minutes for medical attention while the train made its regular stops has died in a hospital, authorities say. James Allen, 61, died Tuesday in the emergency room at Boston Medical Center, where he was taken after the train stopped in Boston, said Brian Pedro, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. Pedro said MBTA police are reviewing the emergency procedures of Amtrak, which provides crew to the commuter rail on a contractual basis. The conductor of the train has been...