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Prescribe blood pressure monitors to reduce stroke, UK charity says
Giving home monitors to those with high blood pressure would reduce heart attacks and other conditionsBlood pressure monitors should be handed out on prescription to slash the number of people who die or are left with disabilities from strokes and heart attacks, a medical charity has said.Making the home monitors available to anyone diagnosed with high blood pressure would allow people to control the condition more effectively and reduce the demand on GPs ’ surgeries,Blood Pressure UK said.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 6, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Health Stroke Heart attack Heart disease UK news Science Society Source Type: news
'Fake news and ageism' keeping statins from older people
Offering statins to all over-75s could prevent 8,000 deaths from heart failure and stroke, researchers sayThousands of deaths and the wrecking of many lives by disability could be averted if doctors routinely offered a daily statin pill to older people, scientists say.They blame misinformation about the side-effects of statins, together with society ’s ageism, for the low uptake among older people, who are at highest risk of heart attacks, heart failure and stroke.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 31, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Health editor Tags: Statins Heart attack Heart disease Stroke Older people Health Medical research Society Science UK news Source Type: news
A stroke nearly killed me. Now I'm clinging to life against the odds | Rachel Capps
At first blinking was hard. But I worked at it, fighting my brain. Every task is an effort, but I ’m committed to getting betterHalf a day. That ’s all it took. Half a day turned my world upside down. My life as a mother, with dreams of building a successful law practice and growing another hobby business. And throughout, aspirations to write.All gone. Flipped in half a day.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 23, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Rachel Capps Tags: Stroke Neuroscience Disability Health Source Type: news
Stroke patients in Wales ‘could die’ because thrombectomy not available
Acute shortage in NHS of specialist doctors who undertake life-saving treatment means hospitals cannot provide itStroke patients in Wales are being denied a life-saving pioneering treatment after the surgical team providing it had to be mothballed because of an acute NHS shortage of the specialist doctors who undertake the procedure.Internal NHS emails obtained by the Guardian reveal that health service bosses in Wales are pleading with hospitals in England to perform mechanical thrombectomy on their patients to save them from disability and death.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 1, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Health policy editor Tags: Stroke NHS Wales Health Medical research Society Doctors Science UK news Source Type: news
£6m statin trial raises hope drug can be used to treat multiple sclerosis
Trial involving almost 1,200 people aims to ‘establish definitively’ whether cholesterol drug can slow disability progressionScientists are hopeful a major drug trial will establish that statins can be used to treat multiple sclerosis.The low-cost drugs are typically prescribed to help lower levels of “bad cholesterol” associated with raised risk of a heart attack or stroke, but they have also shown “incredible promise” for the treatment of MS.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Haroon Siddique Tags: Multiple sclerosis Statins Medical research NHS Society Health Science UK news Source Type: news
Stroke patients in UK 'missing out on treatment for brain clots'
Thousands of patients not being offered procedure that can dramatically reduce disability after a stroke, research suggestsThousands of stroke patients in the UK may be missing out on a treatment that involves physically unplugging blood vessels in the brain, research suggests.Scientists estimate that about 9,000 patients with blood clots in the brain – a tenth of the total – could benefit from mechanical thrombectomy (MT) each year. Currently, fewer than 600 patients a year undergo the procedure.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 29, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Press Association Tags: Health Society UK news Medical research Science Source Type: news
Taking aspirin quickly after minor stroke 'can cut risk of recurrence'
Urgent treatment with blood-thinning drug greatly reduces risk of subsequent fatal or disabling stroke, research findsDeath and disability can be averted by quickly taking aspirin after a minor stroke, a study has found. The blood-thinning drug is already given to people who have suffered a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), or “mini-stroke”, after they have been assessed in hospital. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 19, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Press Association Tags: Medical research Aspirin UK news Science Health Source Type: news
Glyn Humphreys obituary
Key figure in cognitive neuroscience whose research helped many stroke victimsWhen the neuropsychologist Glyn Humphreys, who has died suddenly aged 61, took up his first lectureship, at Birkbeck College, London, a student with a background in physiotherapy joined his class. She asked about the implications of David Marr’s theory of visual perception for the understanding of patients who experience visual disturbances after suffering a stroke. This led to a lively discussion and a subsequent visit to a stroke clinic. It proved to be a turning point in Glyn’s research, highlighting the many ways in which brain damage can...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 9, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Maggie Snowling Tags: Neuroscience Psychology Birkbeck, University of London Disability University of Oxford Source Type: news
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery review
Patients see neurosurgeons as gods, but what is the reality? Henry Marsh has written a memoir of startling candourWe go to doctors for help and healing; we don't expect them to make us worse. Most people know the aphorism taught to medical students, attributed to the ancient Greek Hippocrates but timeless in its quiet sanity: "First, do no harm." But many medical treatments do cause harm: learning how to navigate the risks of drug therapies, as well as the catastrophic consequences of botched or inadvised surgical operations, is a big part of why training doctors takes so long. Even the simplest of therapies carries the ri...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 19, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Gavin Francis Tags: The Guardian Private healthcare Culture Society Reviews Books Neuroscience UK news Hospitals NHS Source Type: news
Medical marijuana could save my daughter's life | Margaret Storey
My child doesn't want to get high, she wants to get better. She can't do that while weed remains criminalized in most of the USMy 10-year-old daughter has big blue eyes and is a serious fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. She loves music, fairy tales, and driving under city streetlights at night. She also cannot walk, talk or feed herself, thanks to the uncontrolled seizures that have resisted all attempts at treatment since she was three months old. Every day, she is at risk of SUDEP, or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.Just in the last year, something truly promising has appeared on the horizon for her and other children w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 25, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Margaret Storey Tags: Comment theguardian.com United States Children Health Medical research Drugs Epilepsy Drugs policy Medicine Comment is free Source Type: news
Bill Bowman obituary
Pharmacologist and academic who made a huge contribution in the field of anaesthesiaAnyone who has had a general anaesthetic in the last 40 years has reason to be grateful to Bill Bowman, who has died aged 83. Bill played a pivotal role in both understanding how muscle-relaxing drugs work and developing safer and shorter-acting replacements.A person under anaesthetic twitches alarmingly unless a drug is used for "paralysis" or temporary muscle relaxation. This allows surgery in the chest and abdomen without the need for very deep anaesthesia and makes it possible for a tube to be passed into the windpipe to keep a patient'...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 20, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Richmond Tags: theguardian.com Obituaries Medical research Pharmacy and pharmacology Second world war Scotland University of Strathclyde Medicine Education Source Type: news
