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  • Why Your Next Trip Should Be To Panama? - Frobes
    Poised at the junction of North and South America, Panama possesses a laundry list of new attractions, hotspots and luxury hotels that are making it an up and coming travel destination—with the catalyst undoubtedly being the $5.25 billion Panama Canal expansion that’s underway and scheduled for completion in 2014. The aim is to allow a greater volume and size of ships to pass through the historic, 50-mile long waterway. The result? Panama City is transforming into an energetic, modern metropolis, with investors preparing for moneyed visitors by upping its luxury quotient.

    Donald Trump got in early on Panama’s growing popularity, opening Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower in summer 2011, making it the first international venture for Trump Hotel Collection (and the tallest building in Latin America). The hotel is uniquely shaped like a tall ship’s sail, and rooms have floor-to-ceiling views of Panama City and the Pacific Ocean. Panamanian touches such as wood-carved headboards grace the 369 guest rooms, and luxe services abound, including wardrobe storage assistance (so frequent visitors don’t have to lug baggage back and forth) and a complimentary catamaran to Trump’s private Beach Club (an island with white sand beaches, a pool, cabanas, watersports and beach chair service). But it’s the 1,830-square-foot pool deck that really caught our attention—it has a gorgeous infinity-edge pool, alfresco seating at the poolside bar and restaurant and expansive ocean views.

    Waldorf Astoria’s The Panamera, the brand’s first in Latin America, is scheduled to open in June in Panama City’s fashionable Calle Uruguay neighborhood. Located less than 15 minutes from Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport and within walking distance of the massive Cinta Costera (the city’s version of Central Park), the luxury hotel will have a 2,500-square-foot spa, 130 guest rooms and an outdoor swimming pool. There will be a variety of restaurants, from the handcrafted sushi at Ginger Sushi Bar and Lounge to contemporary French-American at Brasserie Brillo. The Bungalo Terrace and Pool Bar will be the spot for poolside libations, and The Cristal Bar will serve as an elegant space for cocktails and mingling in the lobby.

    There’s much more to do than lounge poolside in Panama. The once dilapidated but charmingly historic neighborhood of Casco Viejo has undergone a sophisticated makeover in recent years. While you can still spot the colonial-era architecture prevalent throughout its streets, the area now houses some of the city’s best restaurants, bars, galleries and hotels. DiVino Enoteca is a swanky wine bar, with loads of varietals to choose from (watch for the classic, black-and-white movies playing silently in the background). At tapas restaurant Manolo Caracol, there is no menu—once seated, you’ll be given a variety of small plates with Spanish influences, such as Andalusian gazpacho with cucumber sorbet and spicy tuna sashimi.

    The Frank Gehry-designed BioMuseo is set to open in early 2013, and will focus on the country’s fascinating biodiversity and the importance of the isthmus—the narrow strip of land that makes Panama and its revenue-generating canal. And though the museum isn’t officially open yet, you can join the list of VIPs (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jane Goodall) and stop by the site for a sneak peek.
     

    Caroline Patek, Contributor
     
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Stroke Prevention

Stroke Prevention in the Healthiest amongst Us

Anytime you have a situation like chronic high blood pressure, too much cholesterol, and you find that you like your Big Mac with fries three times a day too much to give it up, you might start to get a little worried for your health; and when your wife mentions a six-pack, if you find yourself thinking of an actual six-pack of beer and not your abs, you'd better believe it when the doctors are telling you that you just put yourself on the expressway to a stroke, a wheelchair and a drool cup. Of course, people will give you stroke prevention advice all over the place - you know the drill, exercise, eat your broccoli, and lay off the drink. But what if there were something about a situation that was a high risk of a stroke, but that kind of advice was never passed around? Because you weren't forty and overweight; you were in fact ten, and weighed about 75 pounds?

Could that even happen? No one could be healthier than an active and happy ten-year-old. Why on earth should they get a blockage in an artery leading up to the brain, that would cut them down and confine them to a wheelchair? If you have never heard of this, don't blame yourself. Apparently, doctors haven't really heard that much about this either.: even as strokes kill babies and children under 18 at the rate of about 10,000 every year. How would you even begin with seizure- and stroke-prevention in a husky young child?

Children who get seizures, often get them right after an injury of some kind. Doctors suspect that sometimes, falling down a certain way, can injure an internal artery, so that a tiny clot forms; the clot can travel to the brain, and cause whatever damage it can. Lots of children who fall to the stroke, do so because when they arrive at hospital, most doctors can't believe what they are seeing; and they take several hours weeding out every other possibility. And every hour that the clot remains lodged in there, cutting off blood to some part of the brain, cells keep dying - permanently. Stroke prevention may not be very realistic for young children; but preventing needless delay, even in the order of minutes, is something that can simply be prevented, with public education, and more awareness among doctors. Sometimes, if the doctors seem to take too much time to diagnose the stroke, you could get results by demanding that a neurologist see your child no matter what the emergency room medic says.

The good news with children who get strokes is that when the brain is still young, it can quickly reroute and rewire brain functions so that new parts of the brain can cope with the tasks that have been disrupted by the brain damage. It might take a year or so, but most of the time, the automatic self-repair the brain performs is remarkable. Of course, the initial treatment takes quite a bit of money; if you don't have good health insurance, there is little you can do. Excellent health insurance, knowledge, and the boldness to demand what you need of a hospital and good doctors, are all essential parts of catching a stroke at the right time. Stroke prevention may not be possible ever; but carelessness and delay prevention, are certainly possible here and now.

 
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