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Beauticians and Barbers can Do More Than Their Services

...rokes. In the study, researchers gave lessons on stroke prevention and warning signs to beauticians in bla...uded heart-healthy cookbooks, wallet cards listing stroke warning signs, and other stroke-related materials. At the start of the study, 40.7 percent of the ...

Smoking Increases the Danger of Losing Vision

... by smoking youngsters than the other dangers like stroke and lung cancer associated with it. Hence the government should finance advertising movement which should highlight the age related macular degeneration process. (AMD). Generally advertisements which talk about the dangers of smoking and nicotine a...

A New Plan to Restrict Cardiovascular Diseases in Scotland

... risk of getting coronary heart disease (CHD) or a stroke within ten years will be advised to take statins. GPs will use an assessment tool called ASSIGN to measure risks, which include a previous heart attack, stroke, angina or heart failure or diabetes or family history of high cholesterol. Older peop...

Mentally Ill Have High Risk Of Cardiovascular Death

...o group's death rates from coronary heart disease, stroke and the seven most common types of cancer in the U...more likely to die from coronary heart disease and stroke if they had a severe mental illness. Those with severe mental illness age 18 to 49 were 3.22 times a...

Newborns' Cerebral Palsy Risk Increased By Alzheimer's Gene

...d have worse outcome after brain injury, including stroke and head injury. Overall findings from the study showed that carrying the E4 allele was associated with greater than a threefold-elevated risk for cerebral palsy. The risk was higher for children with quadriplegia/triplegia and was associated with...

Incidence of Neurological Disorders on the Rise

...udy found 183 out of every 100,000 people suffer a stroke each year, and one in 100 has had a stroke in the past. In addition, the study found nearly 10 out of 1,000 elderly Americans have Parkinson’s ...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...ive diseases and in brain damage that results from stroke or sports injuries. "In the late stages of a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, you get irreversible nerve cell loss, and it's possible that is due to loss of this springy protein and nerve elasticity," says study co-author Marc Hammarlund, a U...

Gender No Bar-Heart Attacks Target Everyone

...ntly higher risk of dying// from a heart attack or stroke than men do, and that more must be done to diagnos...t kept pace with men’s.” Today, heart attack and stroke have become gender insensitive, responsible for the deaths of 37,000 women and 37,000 men each year....

Worldwide Parkinson's Cases To Double In Next 25 Years

...ult of only three chronic diseases: heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Furthermore, 60 percent of deaths worldwide are the result of chronic disease, more than double all infectious diseases, maternal and infant conditions, and nutritional deficiencies combined. "Understanding and predicting the burde...

America Sags Under Burden of Neurological Diseases

...rding to the researchers. Other figures include stroke and Parkinson’s disease having same rates of incidence as 10 in every 1000 persons. Yet the scientists note no changes in rates of cerebral palsy, epilepsy, migraine, ALS, or Parkinson's disease. AN...

Stroke Prevention Technique Improves Brain Function

Doctors who performed a small study on stroke patients conclude that placing stents in carotid a...earcher Dr. Rodney Raabe. The study involved 37 stroke patients on whom the procedure was performed. Out of these, 16 patients or 43 percent, reported a...

MRI Better Than CT for Diagnosing Strokes

...time consuming, and the delay can prove fatal to a stroke patient. “The time delay between MRI and CT may ...erate them. “The superiority of MRI in detecting stroke in ideal conditions is unquestioned,” said Dr. Lee Schwamm, an associate professor of neurology at H...

New Tool Improves Prediction of Stroke Risk

...ystem for use by physicians predicts early risk of stroke following a serious condition named transient isch...wn that 4–20 percent of these patients will have a stroke within 90 days of a TIA, and half within the first two days. Identification of those at highest and ...

Chain-Smokers can Kick the Habit –A ‘brainy’ Iea

...of a person who lost the urge to light up, after a stroke damaged the insula of his brain. The scientists...’ experience of quitting suggests that the general stroke patients gave up in standard fashion because of the health risks. The insula-damaged patients, howev...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...g. When brain cells die, whether from head trauma, stroke or disease,// a substance called glutamate floods the surrounding areas, overloading the cells in its path and setting off a chain reaction that damages whole swathes of tissue. Glutamate is always present in the brain, where it carries nerve impu...

Common Anaesthetic Drug Can Kill Brain Cells

...ntral. 'To me, a big dose of isoflurane mimics a stroke or a bang to the head, and you don't want that as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease at any age,' said Rudolph Tanzi of the Massachusetts General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease who led the study. Tanzi's team exposed cells that had an a...

The ‘Mini’ Way to Stop Atrial Fibrillation in Its Tracs

... rhythms. Left untreated, it increases the risk of stroke and can lead to long-term heart failure. With the help of micro-miniature television cameras, surgeons ablate – or destroy tissue by burning it – and electrically isolate the pulmonary veins, where the triggers that activate atrial fibrillation are...

Indian Doctor In Britain Arrested, Bailed For Manslaughter

...ember. Morris was left in a coma after suffering a stroke on April 16 last year. But he made a remarkable recovery and after spending almost five months in hospital he was allowed to go home. Just hours before his release his condition mysteriously deteriorated - and he died a few hours later. His family c...

Drug Linked to Increase in Brain Hemorrhage Cases

... of stroke. An intracerebral brain hemorrhage is a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain. The use of warfa...reased after studies showed it reduced the risk of stroke caused by blood clots for people with atrial fibrillation, a condition that causes irregular heart r...

Higher Folate Levels Linked to Reduced Risk for Alzheimer’s Diseas

...vels and may contribute to cardiovascular disease, stroke and dementia. José A. Luchsinger, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center, New York, and colleagues examined, interviewed and assessed the diets of 965 individuals without dementia between 1992 and 1994 and then followed them for an average of 6.1 ...

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