The following recommendations are generic for all types of cardiac stress tests: 1  Do not eat or drink for three hours prior to the procedure. This reduces the likelihood of nausea that may accompany strenuous exercise after a heavy meal. 2  Specific heart medicines may need to be stopped one or two days prior to the test.
San Francisco mayor Frank Jordan declared a state of emergency in the city as the looting continued into the night. a condition, declared by a government, in which martial law applies, usually because of civil unrest or natural disaster.
After at least six states declared the opioid epidemic an emergency in their states as opioid deaths continue to rise, President Donald Trump declared it a national emergency on Thursday. But what does that mean for governors and mayors who have been grappling with opioid abuse for years? Nothing -- at least not yet. First, the White House has to decide what kind of emergency the opioid epidemic is, exactly. There are several different kinds of emergency declarations. While they accomplish similar things, they serve different purposes.