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Black Kids Now Less Likely to Die from Stroke (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Publication of the STOP trial, in which long-term blood transfusions were effective for preventing stroke in children with sickle cell anemia, was associated with a reduction in the racial disparity in stroke mortality, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - June 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Losing And Finding My Mother After Her Stroke
The air outside a hospital feels especially cool and fresh. The natural light, even if it's gray January light is a blessed relief after the fluorescent tunnels I've been guiding my mother along. We had a funny moment of intimacy in the bathroom, trying to get her urine sample in a cup. It isn't easy: crouching, aiming, approximating where in the space below you the stream will collect. Add a daughter trying to micromanage her mother's urine flow and a line of weak-bladdered patients queuing outside, rolling their eyes and tugging at their waistbands and you have all the ingredients of a Mike and Elaine sketch. Sometimes...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Here to Stay -- Living With Sickle Cell Disease
My name is Noah Alexander Williams and I am living with sickle cell anemia disease. Sickle cell isn't really a widely talked-about disease but it's so real and epic that it should be. Sickle cell anemia disease is a grasping chronic sickness that doesn't let go. Unfortunately I have it and have had it since I was born. I don't know life without sickle cell disease and therefore I don't know life without pain -- the daily aches, the crucial crises that come out of nowhere. Sickle cell is never predictable. Of course this disease has impacted my life beyond words. I've learned to cope with it. Just to be clear, sickle cell...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blood Transfusions May Mean Fewer Strokes in Kids with Sickle Cell Disease
Study found the practice, first widely initiated in 1998, is reaping benefits for young patients Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Blood Transfusion and Donation, Sickle Cell Anemia, Stroke
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - June 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Are we being told the whole truth about Pradaxa, the new 'wonder' stroke drug?
The anti-clotting effect of Pradaxa can't be reversed quickly. Emergency procedures such as blood transfusions or dialysis are needed.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blood Transfusions May Cut Risk of 'Silent' Stroke in Kids With Sickle Cell
Study found children who got monthly infusions were less likely to suffer another attack
Source: WebMD Health - August 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blood Transfusions May Cut Risk of 'Silent' Stroke in Kids with Sickle Cell
Study found children who got monthly infusions were less likely to suffer another attack Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Blood Transfusion and Donation, Children's Health, Sickle Cell Anemia
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - August 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Precision medicine is coming, but not anytime soon
President Obama’s announcement of a Precision Medicine Initiative was one of the few items in this year’s State of the Union address to garner bipartisan support. And for good reason. Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, offers the promise of health care — from prevention to diagnosis to treatment — based on your unique DNA profile. Who wouldn’t want that? We’ve already had a taste of precision medicine. Relatively low-tech therapies like eyeglasses, orthotic devices, allergy treatments, and blood transfusions have long been personalized for the individual. Genetic analysis o...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - March 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beverly Merz Tags: Health care personalized health care precision medicine Source Type: news

Hospitalization after fainting can do more harm than good
One morning not long ago, my teenage daughter started to black out. After an ambulance ride to our local hospital’s emergency department, an electrocardiogram, and some bloodwork, she was sent home with a follow-up doctor appointment. We got the good news that Alexa is perfectly healthy, but should avoid getting too hungry or thirsty so she doesn’t faint again. And I’m feeling lucky that she didn’t need to be hospitalized, because a research letter in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine points out that hospitalization for low-risk fainting can do more harm than good. Doctors use something called th...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - April 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Health fainting San Francisco Syncope Rule Source Type: news