News tagged with childhood stroke
Can children have strokes?
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Childhood stroke is at least as common as brain tumours in children and may be as common as all childhood cancer but the condition is under-recognised by both the public and the medical profession. A new study hopes to address ...
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Some evidence that diets high in calcium and dairy products in childhood may lower mortality
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Suggestive evidence points to the possibility that children who have a diet high in calcium and who consume dairy products may have a lower mortality rate than those who don’t, according to ...
Pediatric strokes more than twice as common as previously reported
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Imaging studies along with diagnostic codes on medical charts show that the rate of strokes in infants and children is two to four times higher than commonly thought, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American He ...
Ultrasound screening helps prevent stroke in children with sickle cell disease
Dec 06, 2008 |
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Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions. Over an eight-year ...
Annual costs of stroke in US children at least $42 million
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Stroke in children costs at least $42 million annually in the United States, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2009 |
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The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.
Women More Likely Than Men to Suffer Depression After Stroke
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Depression occurs in as many as one-third of patients after a stroke, and women are at somewhat higher risk, according to a large new review of studies. Post-stroke depression is associated with greater disability, ...
Study supports reason for concern in childhood and adolescent obesity
May 09, 2008 |
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Study findings presented at the May 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting indicate that childhood and adolescent obesity negatively impacts vascular endothelial function, ...
Australian stroke victim walks again - with help of botox
Jun 20, 2009 |
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An Australian stroke victim paralysed for more than 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team.
Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry, researchers find
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Adult survivors of childhood cancer are 20 to 25 percent more likely to never marry compared with siblings and the general population, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Bi ...
Muscle 'synergies' may be key to stroke treatment
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at MIT and San Camillo Hospital in Venice, Italy, have shown that motor impairments in stroke patients can be understood as impairments in specific combinations of muscle activity, known as synergies.
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