Recommendations for the establishment of primary stroke centers
...n Attack Coalition's recommendations for a primary stroke center address the following 11 major aspects of acute stroke care: Acute Stroke Teams -- The Acute Stroke Team should include a physician with experience in di...Establishing "stroke centers" in hospitals would reduce deaths and disabilities, say stroke experts
...June 21 issue of JAMA BETHESDA, MD -- A national stroke coalition today announced it is advocating for all hospitals to establish stroke centers or other programs to reduce deaths and disabilities from stroke. The June 21, 2000, issue of...Repairing brain damage from stroke may be possible with brain cell transplants
...laboratory-grown neuronal cells into the brains of stroke patients is safe and well-tolerated by patients, a...treatment for reversing the neurologic damage of a stroke months after it occurs. The only treatment for these patients is rehabilitation through physical or ...Major new study finds long-acting calcium channel blockers inferior to other antihypertensive drugs
... was 11 percent higher. There was no difference in stroke or total mortality; and there was no evidence of differences among the CCBs tested." The results add to a growing body of evidence that antihypertensive drugs, despite having equal effect on blood pressure, may vary in their ability to prevent heart......amage. Potential neurologic complications include stroke and paralysis. According to the results of their studies, the researchers found Sudafed® to be relatively "safe," but determined that Dramamine® could have serious consequences on a diver's mental functioning and judgment."Our findings indica...New drug takes multiple approach to prevent brain damage from stroke
...educed by two-thirds the area of brain damage from stroke in animal tests. The achievement is reported in th...ach is what differentiates the new drug from other stroke medications, Annoura said. He expects the drug to proceed to human clinical trials, he continued. St...Studies: delay in seeking stroke treatment can lead to death, permanent impairment
...ople who think they or someone else is suffering a stroke need to call 911 to summon emergency medical servi...ools of public health and medicine, focused on why stroke treatment often is delayed. Both appear in the November issue of Stroke, a publication of the Americ...Results of Yale study confirm aspirin helpful in preventing a first heart attack
.... There was an increase in the risk of hemorrhagic stroke from taking aspirin, which also has been detected ...ever, a slight increase in the risk of hemorrhagic stroke associated with aspirin use. The overview included four primary prevention trials of aspirin and...Insulin precursor linked with increased stroke risk; may represent new risk factor
...insulin had a sharply increased risk of first-time stroke especially women. "High proinsulin concentrati... more than tripled the overall risk for first-ever stroke after adjusting for such risk factors as total cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, body mass ......f chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's disease." Older people with chronic illnesses often need nursing care and have limitations in their daily activities, she explained. Some are unable to walk. Others are unable to feed and dress themselves, and many have repeated hos...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...ing of normal language processes and help optimize stroke therapy. The study is reported in the Dec. 26 issu...ems with speech and language, particularly after a stroke to the left side of the brain. Remarkably, many recover the majority of their language abilities wit......ditions, such as spinal cord injury, brain trauma, stroke affecting white matter, and chronic, progressive multiple sclerosis," he said....Gender-specific intervention may be needed to improve diets of african-american youth
... Americans, can lead to coronary heart disease and stroke but can be controlled through medication, lifestyle and dietary changes, including reduction of salt. The study found girls who successfully followed the low-sodium diet reported having more emotional support from their family than did the boys. I...Personality influences psychological adjustment and recovery from stroke
... Pre-stroke personality has a greater influence on stroke recovery than the brain injury itself, according t...ision of the American Heart Association. Some stroke survivors are highly susceptible to emotional changes from the brain injury and psychological reacti...Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
...noring, sleep duration and daytime sleepiness with stroke and carotid artery narrowing in 1,348 adults who participated in a stroke screening program in Buffalo, New York. Of the group, 6 percent had a previous stroke and 7 percent...Cell transplants offer hope of brain repair following stroke
...brains and spinal cords into repairing trauma from stroke or other diseases, says senior author Daniel M. Ro...t Einstein College of Medicine and director of the stroke center at Montefiore Medical Center, New York. "We were not sure the transplanted cells would even...Engineers use computer simulation to design synthetic blood vessels
...or partially occluded, such as patients at risk of stroke due to arterial plaque buildup, or dialysis patien...of arterial plaque. This design could help prevent stroke in patients due to thrombosis in the carotid, which is the main artery to the brain and face. ......e effects such as breast and edometrial cancer and stroke cause many women to steer clear of HRT. Hochberg said the risks associated with HRT outweigh the benefits for many women. "The risks of side effects are small, but they are real," he said. "Although they happen in only a small percentage of women,...No basis found for conlusion that chiropractic is linked to strokes
...he implication that chiropractic care is linked to stroke is totally unsupported by clinical research, accor... as much as fivefold -- the risk of a rare type of stroke called a vertebrobasilar accident. To reach that conclusion, the researchers looked at 582 people ...Gender differences apparent in psychological factors that predict later hypertension
... hypertension likely died due to heart disease and stroke during the 20 years between surveys....