Broken Heart Syndrome (Stress Cardiomyopathy) Symptoms, Causes, Treatments
January 25, 2011 No Comment
WebMD discusses broken heart syndrome, a condition that occurs when stress and a troubled mind affect the heart causing symptoms that can mimic a heart attack.
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It’s not just Big Red taking issue with the FCC’s final stance on net neutrality, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — landline and wireless operators tend to do a pretty good job harmonizing their opinions on regulatory issues, and net neutrality is about as big of a regulatory issue as you’re going to get. Next up to drop the legal hammer is MetroPCS, filing this week with the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and saying that it wants to make sure “the concerns of competitive wireless carriers, like MetroPCS, are addressed.” Interestingly, the company specifically calls out net neutrality complaints against its new 4G plans — which stratify non-browser data usage as a separate category with its own bucket — as one of the reasons it’s filing the appeal; separately, the carrier says that it’s going to formally respond to those complaints next month, so it’s clearly not ready to back down and rethink its LTE strategy. It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out. MetroPCS takes a cue from Verizon, appeals FCC’s net neutrality code originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Are younger women in danger of heart disease? Would you know if you had a heart attack? WebMD lists out 6 dangerous myths we believe about heart disease.
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Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with riot police on Tuesday in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. (January 25)
Continue reading …Joan Rivers’ new reality show on WE, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? , follows the 77-year-old comedian as she moves in with her daughter in Los Angeles. It’s as artificial as the botox Rivers extols: The show is “upsetting,” writes a pained Linda Stasi in the New York Post . From…
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The Illinois Supreme Court has halted the Chicago board of elections from printing any mayoral ballots without Rahm Emanuel’s name on them. (Jan. 25)
Continue reading …The massive volcano that lurks under Yellowstone National Park took a “breath” recently, causing miles of earth to rise dramatically, scientists tell National Geographic . From 2004 to 2010, parts of the 925-square-mile caldera have swelled as much as 10 inches, most likely pushed up by a magma pocket four to…
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Give that Bear a Gold Medal in Endurance Swimming We’ve known for a while that the increasing melting of the Arctic sea ice cover during the summer was posing big problems to polar bears, forcing some to swim for extended distances, using up their precious reserves of energy and reducing their chances of surviving harsh winters and reproducing. A group of scientists has tracked on bear who swam continuously for 9 days over 426 miles of almost freezing water! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Arch1Design Carol Browner, the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change — i.e., the administration’s top climate post — is stepping down . Speculation had long swirled that she was going to give up the job, but beltway rumor had it it that she was moving to another in the administration. Alas, ’twas not to be. Browner is jumping ship — and even worse, it look… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …It’s her show’s final season, she’s just back from Australia, and suddenly she’s got a big surprise: Oprah has a long-lost half-sister! What a fortunate coincidence for the queen of talk, writes Lisa de Moraes in the Washington Post . This despite the fact that Oprah met her sister months ago,…
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