"Whispering stroke" impairs quality of life

sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reutershealth.com)

U.S. researchers report, symptoms suggestive of stroke that don't lead to an actual stroke diagnosis, sometimes called a "whispering" stroke, can still impair physical functioning and quality of life.

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A Cumulative Effect of Physical Training on Bone Strength in Males

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.thieme-connect.com)

"These objective was to assess the differences in bone properties, using quantitative ultrasound (QUS, Sunlight Omnisense™, Sunlight Medical, Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel), in male athletes involved in a weight-bearing, impact sport (soccer, SC) or a nonimpact sport (swimming and water polo, AQ), compared with nonathletic control (C) males. A total of 266 boys and men, aged 8 - 23 years, were divided into children (11.1 ± 1.0 years; 34 SC, 34 AQ, 25 C), adolescents (14.7 ± 1.2 years; 32 SC, 31 AQ, 31 C), and young adults (19.8 ± 1.1 years; 31 SC, 24 AQ, 24 C) · Training experience varied between 1

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"Fastest man on no legs" has unfair advantage at the Olympics?

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nytimes.com)

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Oscar Pistorius, who had both legs amputated when he was a baby for medical reasons, can now run the one hundred meter dash in under eleven seconds. He wants to cut that time down even further so that he can run for his native South Africa in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The question, though, is whether his light prosthetic legs give him an unfair advantage over the rest of us stringy meatballs. I.A.A.F

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