This was a bad year for bad guys. Departing the political scene — or departing the scene altogether — were Osama bin Laden , North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il , and a trio of Arab leaders: Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi. There isn’t much tying these farewells together. Bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. Navy SEALS in Pakistan in May, died of what might be described as unnatural but unsurprising causes. Kim, meanwhile, died of a heart attack last week but had been in failing health after a stroke several years ago. Both men could have died at any point in the past several years — 2011 just happened to be their time. Read full article > >

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For the world’s bad guys, 2011 was a dangerous year

Had heart attack on train.

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North Korea’s Kim Jong-il Dies

Bollywood screen legend Dev Anand dies in London of a heart attack at the age of 88, his relatives say.

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Bollywood great Dev Anand dies

Christopher Ma, The Washington Post’s senior vice president for development, died Nov. 23 at a hospital in New York City. He was 61. He had a heart attack, said his wife, Nathalie Gilfoyle. Mr. Ma was the publisher of Express, The Washington Post Co.’s free commuter tabloid. In the late 1990s, he was a vice president and executive producer at Digital Ink, The Post’s online subsidiary, which was renamed Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI). Read full article > >

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Christopher Ma, Washington Post Co. vice president, dies at 61

Firefighters from across Nevada came close to taming a sudden wildfire that sent 16 people to hospitals and was blamed for the death of a 74-year-old man who had a heart attack while trying to flee.

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Wildfire Outside of Reno Damages 25 Homes

Exposure to heavy traffic fumes raises heart attack risk for the following six hours, researchers discover.

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Car fumes ‘trigger heart attacks’

Murder detectives are continuing to question six people about the death of a Wales fan who was injured and suffered a heart attack before the match with England at Wembley.

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Murder police probe fan’s death

If you’re not overweight, eat pretty well and exercise now and then, you might think you’re in good heart health. But doctors say you don’t have to look like a heart attack waiting to happen to be one.

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Being thin won’t stop heart attack

Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels. So how to explain a new study that suggests low salt intake actually increases the risk of dying from those causes?

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Low-salt diet, more heart attack risk?

Doctors, hospitals and federal regulators are struggling to cope with an unprecedented surge in drug shortages in the United States that is endangering cancer patients, heart attack victims, accident survivors and a host of other ill people.

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Shortages of key drugs endanger patients

Edinburgh University researchers say a more sensitive blood test could increase the number of heart attack patients correctly diagnosed.

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Heart attack test ‘detects more’

Exercising or having sex roughly triples a person’s risk of heart attack in the hours immediately afterward, especially if the person does those activities infrequently, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Heart risk spikes after sex, exercise

We’ve all seen those scenes in movies where some couch potato who doesn’t usually get a lot of exercise suddenly clutches their chest and drops dead from a heart attack when they decide to do something active, such as have sex. But does that really happen? Well, a new analysis indicates that the answer is yes.

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The link between occasional physical activity and heart attack

The Venezuelan political activist Lina Ron – one of president Hugo Chavez’s most radical supporters – dies of a heart attack at 53.

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Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies

Federal authorities say they have arrested a fugitive in rural Florida who was on the lam for 30 years after faking a heart attack to escape from prison.

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