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AI Helps a Stroke Patient Speak Again, a Milestone for Tech and Neuroscience
The brain activity of a paralyzed woman is being translated into words spoken by an avatar. This milestone could help others who have lost speech.
Source: NYT Health - August 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Pam Belluck Tags: Brain Artificial Intelligence Stroke Research Voice and Speech Nature (Journal) Computers and the Internet Paralysis Disabilities Stanford University University of California, San Francisco University of California, Berkeley Canada Source Type: news
What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Drug and Alcohol Policy Today
It’s widely understood today that drinking while pregnant is harmful for the fetus. But the link between alcohol and the health of infants wasn’t as well known in the 1930s, when prohibition was repealed in the U.S. and all sorts of people, pregnant women included, began drinking again.Because prohibition was lifted on a piecemeal basis across the U.S., some counties continued to prohibit alcohol, or stay “dry,” while their neighboring counties were “wet.” Those conditions created what economists call a natural experiment, and made it possible to track the health impacts of maternal drin...
Source: TIME: Health - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Oliver Staley Tags: Uncategorized Public Health Source Type: news
Women fare worse than men after surviving a stroke, new report suggests
Nearly a million Canadians are living with the aftereffects of having a stroke, including serious mental health issues, a new paper from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada suggests. It also says women often fare worse than men.
Source: CBC | Health - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
A New Study Shows How Seriously Air Pollution Can Affect Your Heartbeat
For China’s 1.4 billion people, the simple act of breathing has long been something of a risk. Living in the ninth-dirtiest country in the world in terms of air quality, China’s residents lose an average of 2.6 years of life per capita due to atmospheric pollution alone. The greatest risk, of course, is pulmonary, with air pollution leading to shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, asthma episodes, and chest pain. But pollution affects the heart too; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that exposure to fine-particulate matter as well as to nitrogen oxides alone can lead to premature aging in bloo...
Source: TIME: Health - May 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Environment healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Trendy zero carb Keto diet may double risk of heart disease, study warns
The Keto diet has become incredibly popular in recent years as a rapid way to lose weight. But Canadian researchers warn that it may also raise the risk of serious cardiovascular events like a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'We feel we can breathe again': Blue Cross reverses course, will cover Sask. man's $500K medical bills
The family of Louis Lamothe, a Halbrite, Sask. man who suffered a stroke while vacationing in Arizona and incurred thousands of dollars in travel and medical bills, is resting easier now that Saskatchewan Blue Cross, which had denied their travel insurance claim, has had a change of heart.
Source: CBC | Health - March 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatoon Source Type: news
EVT Will Save Millions of Lives From Stroke. Eventually.
A procedure called EVT is creating radically better outcomes for patients, but only when it ’s performed quickly enough — and that requires the transformation of an entire system of care.
Source: NYT Health - March 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eva Holland Tags: Stroke Emergency Medical Treatment Hemorrhagic Stroke Stents (Medical Devices) Catheters Brain Alberta (Canada) Bangladesh Source Type: news
This Sask. man had a stroke in Arizona. His family awaits massive bill after insurance claim denied
After a man from Halbrite, Sask,, had a stroke while vacationing in Arizona, his family learned they were on the hook for a $56,000 flight home — and other medicals bills yet to come in — as their health insurance was cancelled.
Source: CBC | Health - February 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatoon Source Type: news
Canada cracks down on alcohol, saying people should have just TWO drinks a week
Canada's health authorities made the recommendation in response to risks of cancer, heart disease nad stroke. Experts slammed guidance as 'worse than useless'.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 5 Best Ways to Control High Cholesterol, According to People With the Condition
There are a variety of factors that influence cardiovascular risk—but cholesterol is one of the first things that doctors pay attention to.
Having high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is “definitely a variable we try to manage, because it’s been shown to be problematic for heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health.
Though it’s often called the “bad” kind of cholesterol, LDL cholesterol makes up most of your body’s cholesterol stores. That means it’s not a villain on its own, but when levels start creeping ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Getting a flu vaccine lowers your risk of a STROKE years later, study shows
Researchers analyzed the health records of more than 4million adults in Alberta, Canada, over a 10-year period in the biggest study of its kind into the link between flu and strokes.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Severely injured patients waited hours in HSC emergency entrance hallway due to absence of beds inside
Twelve people on stretchers, including a stroke patient with a bleeding brain and a trauma patient transported by helicopter, were lined up in the entrance hallway at Manitoba's largest emergency department on Sunday evening because no beds were available inside, a physician at the hospital said.
Source: CBC | Health - September 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Manitoba Source Type: news
B.C. woman who suffered stroke waited over an hour for an ambulance. Now she's partially paralyzed
The family of a woman who was left paralyzed after suffering a stroke is asking for answers as to why she waited more than an hour for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Source: CBC | Health - September 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
The Truth About Fasting and Type 2 Diabetes
Most fad diets don’t live up to the hype, let alone serious scientific scrutiny. But intermittent fasting seems to be an exception. These plans involve going without caloric foods or drinks for an extended period of time—anywhere from 16 hours to several days—and they have become increasingly popular. Research has also found them to be effective for weight loss.
Doctors often advise people with Type 2 diabetes to lose weight, which can have beneficial effects on blood glucose and insulin sensitivity, as well as on the progression of the disease. For this and other reasons, experts are actively looking at ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Air Pollution May Increase the Risk of Severe COVID-19
This study enforces the idea that air pollution is pervasive and a silent killer.”
The study was observational and therefore unable to establish a cause-and-effect relationship. But air pollution could make people more vulnerable to COVID-19 in a number of ways, the researchers hypothesize. For instance, air pollution might increase people’s viral loads by limiting the lungs’ immune responses and anti-microbial activities, the study authors say. It may also increase chronic inflammation in the body and trigger the over-expression of a key enzyme receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter cells.
Since the st...
Source: TIME: Health - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
