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Minorities have poorer results, higher rates of inappropriate surgery to prevent stroke
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Minorities have poorer results and higher rates of unnecessary surgery from a common procedure used to remove plaque from inside the carotid artery, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center doctor who is lead author ...
Stroke group expands time for clot-busting drugs
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A change to stroke treatment guidelines is expanding the time that some patients can get clot-busting drugs. Current recommendations limit the use of the medicine to within three hours after the start of stroke symptoms. ...
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Suffer stroke symptoms? Second strokes often follow within hours
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 01, 2009 |
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About half of all people who have a major stroke following a warning stroke (a transient ischemic attack or mild stroke) have it within 24 hours of the first event, according to research published in the June 2, 2009, print ...
Severe stress can cause stroke
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Many patients urgently admitted to hospital with cerebral infarction state that they were under great stress over a prolonged period prior to suffering their stroke, is shown in a unique patient study conducted in cooperation ...
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, ...
Simple test may identify stroke survivors at risk of another cardiovascular event
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Measuring circulation in the ankle using a device similar to a blood pressure cuff can help identify asymptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) in stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) survivors, a group at much higher ...
Most Stroke Victims Arrive at Hospital Too Late for Drug Therapy
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most stroke patients arrive at the hospital too late to take advantage of a clot-busting drug that significantly reduces stroke symptoms and lessens the chance of permanent disability, according to researchers ...
Improving impaired attention may help patients recover from stroke
Jul 23, 2009 |
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It may be possible to improve impaired attention after stroke -- which could aid recovery -- according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...
Research: Migraine increases stroke risk
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Migraine with aura (temporary visual or sensory disturbances before or during a migraine headache) is associated with a twofold increased risk of stroke, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. Further ...
Moderate-to-heavy exercise may reduce risk of stroke for men
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Men who regularly take part in moderate-to-heavy intensity exercise such as jogging, tennis or swimming may be less likely to have a stroke than people who get no exercise or only light exercise, such as walking, golfing, ...
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