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Alex Valentine suffered STROKE during half marathon forcing doctors to remove part of skull
Student Alex Valentine, 21, from Dorset, could run 20 miles before he suffered from a stroke in May last year. He has had to relearn how to talk and walk but is determined to run again one day.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Being lonely raises risk of a stroke or heart attack by a third
Loneliness increases the risk of a heart attack or stroke by almost a third, according to research. The effect of social isolation is similar to that of anxiety or work-related stress.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Reducing doses of common stroke drug 'could save thousands of lives'
Reducing the dose of alteplase – taken by one in nine stroke patients – would slash brain bleeds by two thirds and death rates by a sixth, according to an international study led by Leicester University.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke victims abandoned after they leave hospital as experts attack aftercare
A report, based on interviews with 1,200 stroke patients in England, reveals that many are left without the physiotherapy, speech therapy and rehabilitation they need to rebuild their lives.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke victims' could soon be helped my 'magnetic blood' which pushes medication around
A new procedure being studied at University College Hospital in London uses magnetic beads to 'push' life-saving medication around stroke victims' systems 30 times faster than normal.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shift work, irregular sleeping and eating patterns 'increase a worker's risk of stroke'
Scientists at Texas A&M University found rather than the longer, or odd hours, being the problem, it is the change in the time of waking, sleeping and eating that 'unwinds' the body clock and causes the increased risk of stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke patients to walk, talk and live a normal life after stem cell treatment
Stanford scientists used stem cell treatment on patients, and found it worked up to three years after a stroke. Patients regained the ability to walk, talk and were able to live a normal family life.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How keeping fit in middle age boosts health in retirement cutting stroke risk
The fittest 40 per cent in middle-age were 37 per cent less likely than the least fit to suffer a stroke in old age, says a new study by scientists from the University of Texas.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman who thought she had a cricked neck fell into a coma and woke up PARALYSED after suffering a spinal stroke
Caroline Hall, 38, from Bolton, Lancashire, suffered a spinal stroke, where the blood supply to the spine is cut off so the nerves become damaged and die, causing paralysis.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An aspirin a day keeps death at bay: Just a quarter of a tablet can help people who have a stroke to survive
Researchers from Aberdeen University People found people who had taken the drugs as a precaution were also more likely to return home following a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Taking a quarter of an aspirin tablet a day can help people who have a stroke to survive
Researchers from Aberdeen University People found people who had taken the drugs as a precaution were also more likely to return home following a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Caring for elderly stroke survivors costs $40 BILLION a year
According to numbers crunched by the University of Michigan, each of America's 6.5 million stroke survivors need around $11,000 in care and treatment each week.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GPs instructed to restrict life-saving drugs to those at risk of a heart attack or stroke
Stockport CCG has ordered GPs to ignore the official advice for prescribing statins. But experts have warned that one in three people are killed through heart disease and stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most fatal type of stroke becoming increasingly rare as smoking falls out of fashion
A sharp drop in the number of people who suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage - the most fatal form of stroke - occurred in the same period as a decline in smoking numbers.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS stroke patients suffer 'devastating' delays to rehab treatment
Stroke victims are having to wait more than four months for physiotherapy after leaving hospital, according to a report. The delays have a ‘devastating’ impact on patients’ recovery.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
