Israel's Ariel Sharon Suffers Stroke
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been hospitalized after suffering what's reported to be a massive stroke, reports indicate. In a stroke, blood flow to the brain is disrupted. That interruption gravely threatens control over movement, perception, speech, or other functions of the mind and body.
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Sharon, Clark Put Spotlight on Stroke
Only days after stroke-stricken Dick Clark resumed his role as king of New Year's Eve, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a devastating stroke just weeks after his first. Each suffered very different strokes, with very different causes. How can stroke mean so many different things? Why do different strokes have such different outcomes? For answers to these and other stroke questions, WebMD turned to Keith A. Siller, MD. Siller is medical director of the NYU Comprehensive Stroke Care Center and assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.
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Top Stroke Survival Tips Identified
Many people delay seeking care for stroke, and it's high time that changed, doctors write in Neurology. Few stroke patients arrive at a hospital quickly enough to get a clot-busting drug called tPA, write Y.Z. Deng, MD, and colleagues. The drug needs to be given within three hours after a stroke starts in order to be effective.
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Gender Bias in Stroke Care Persists
The gender gap in stroke care shows no signs of narrowing, Italian researchers report. In a study of more than 250 stroke victims, about twice as many women as men suffered from a potentially deadly heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation that is associated with severe strokes. In atrial fibrillation, the heart beats irregularly, which can allow blood clots to form in the heart and then travel from the heart to the brain to cause a stroke.
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Lifetime Stroke Risk Drops
A new study shows that your chance of having a stroke in your lifetime has dropped significantly over the past 50 years. And at least for men, the chance of dying from the disease has declined as well.
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Mittens May Aid Stroke Recovery
Mittens are the latest weapon in the war against stroke, researchers report. In a new study, stroke victims who had their "good" arms immobilized with a splint-like mitt for two weeks fared better than those who received standard physical therapy. For example, they could more easily perform everyday tasks such as answering the phone, according to researcher Steven L. Wolf, PhD.
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Stroke: Big Gains With Hand Splinting
A new study shows long-term benefits from short-term therapy for stroke survivors. The study, published online in Stroke, included 41 people with mild to moderate movement problems due to stroke. An average of four years had passed since their strokes.
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Baseball's Puckett Dies After a Stroke
Former baseball player Kirby Puckett has died at age 45 after suffering a stroke on Sunday. Puckett died on March 6, according to a statement by Puckett's family posted on the web site of Puckett's former team, the Minnesota Twins.
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Folic Acid May Cut Stroke Deaths
Fortifying flour and other enriched-grain products might help cut stroke death, researchers report in Circulation. The CDC's Quanhe Yang, PhD, and colleagues tracked stroke deaths from 1990 to 2002 in the U.S., Canada, England, and Wales. Stroke deaths had been declining in all of those populations.
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Roadblock in Treating Stroke Symptoms
New research shows why some people delay seeking treatment for stroke symptoms. Those patients may size up their symptoms and wrongly decide their problem isn't urgent enough to get emergency care. That may be a dangerous mistake.
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Ministroke Needs Immediate Attention
Few people seek immediate medical care for 'mini strokes,' and experts want that to change. Researchers interviewed 241 people who had been treated in Oxford, England, for a mini stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA). In a transient ischemic attack, you can have similar symptoms of a stroke, but unlike a stroke, they are temporary and go away. Less than half of the patients -- 44% -- sought medical attention within hours of symptoms.
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Drug Trio May Cut Stroke Severity
Strokes caused by blood clots may be less severe in patients taking three particular types of drugs. Those drug types -- antiplatelets, statins, and ACE inhibitors -- are already used to help prevent stroke in at-risk patients. Now, a new study shows that strokes tend to be less severe in patients taking all three drug types.
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New Guidelines for Stroke Prevention
Today, tomorrow, and every day this year, roughly 1,900 strokes will be suffered by people in the U.S. After heart disease and cancer, strokes are responsible for more American deaths than any other medical condition, but experts say much could be done to change this.
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Men More Likely to Die From Stroke
Men may be more likely to die or develop serious complications from a strokestroke than women. A new study shows that despite the fact that men tend to have strokes at an earlier age than women, they face an 8% higher risk of death and 90% higher risk of developing pneumonia as a complication of a stroke.
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