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Heat Stroke Isn ’t Just a Short-Term Danger
With each summer of increased extreme heat, more people worldwide face the risks associated with heat exposure. Last year, Europe saw a record number of heat-related deaths, and even regions more used to dealing with hot weather, like South Asia, are seeing high temperatures start earlier and earlier in the season. Heat stroke—the most dangerous form of heat-related illness—is a growing threat and creates a public health quandary since there’s still no available treatment other than simply cooling victims down. What’s more, early research seems to suggest heat stroke could lead to further health con...
Source: TIME: Health - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Thousands of lives 'at risk' because nearly HALF of NHS hospitals are low of stroke specialists
Stroke consultant positions are at a 'worryingly low level' and Britain is 'hurtling' towards a major stroke crisis unless the NHS can recruit specialist medics, The Stroke Association said.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Restoration and recovery of stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic, British Association of Stroke Physicians
Restoration and recovery of stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic assesses the impact of rapid changes made across the whole stroke pathway – including community services – at the peak of the pandemic, outlining new ways of working which have been beneficial for both patients and staff and should be continued and extended. It also aims to highlight those changes which now need a closer look and prevent a return to less effective way s of working.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Britain's youngest stroke victim' goes blind during treatment
20-month old Ronnie Kerman from Bransholme is thought to be Britain's youngest stroke victim. Doctors are attempting to drain the cysts that caused his stroke, but he may never see again
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Studies: Low-Dose Aspirin May Not Prevent Initial Heart Attack, Stroke
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day has long been known to cut the chances of another heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in people who already have had one, but the risks don’t outweigh the benefits for most other folks, major new research finds.
Although it’s been used for more than a century, aspirin’s value in many situations is still unclear. The latest studies are some of the largest and longest to test this pennies-a-day blood thinner in people who don’t yet have heart disease or a blood vessel-related problem.
One found that aspirin did not help prevent first strokes or heart attacks...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - August 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch aspirin Source Type: news
The stroke revolution that will save millions
Every five minutes in Britain, someone will suffer a stroke. They can affect people of all ages: one in four people who have a stroke are of working age and they strike more than 400 children each year.
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vegetarians May Face Higher Stroke Risk
While vegetarians had a 22% lower risk for heart disease, they had a 20% higher risk for stroke, British researchers found. Meanwhile, people who ate fish but no other meats (pescatarians) had a 13% lower risk of heart disease, with no increased stroke risk.
Source: WebMD Health - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Adapting stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic: an implementation guide, British Association of Stroke Physicians
Guidance for adapting stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic – and reshaping them afterwards – has been made available in a collaboration between the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme and the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Britain's stroke shame! Two-thirds of patients do not have properly trained NHS staff
EXCLUSIVE : The NHS is failing stroke patients with two thirds of specialist wards without enough properly trained stroke staff, new figures reveal
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cheap pills may prevent dementia after a stroke
CHEAP drugs being prescribed for heart and circulatory diseases could halt the onset of dementia after a stroke, British scientists say.
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Jilly Cooper health: The British author survived a stroke - what are the symptoms?
JILLY COOPER is an English author and former journalist, perhaps most famous for her collection of romance novels. In 2010, Cooper suffered and survived a stroke. Strokes are serious and can be life-threatening, but how do you know if you are having one? These are the symptoms to look out for.
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One of Britain's youngest stroke victims at just 19 months 'stands up' for the first time
Ronnie Kerman, of Bransholme, was found lifeless in his cot in March 2018 by his father. He is receiving chemotherapy for a brain tumour which caused the stroke and left him unable to use his legs.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Napping Once Or Twice A Week Could Lower Heart Attack & Stroke Risk, Study Finds
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN
(CNN) — Some good news for nap fanatics — a new study has found that a daytime nap taken once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks or strokes.
Researchers from the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland studied the association between napping frequency and duration and the risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease complications.
Tracking 3,462 people between the ages of 35 and 75 for just over five years, the report authors found that those who indulged in occasional napping — once or twice a week, for between five minutes to an hour — were 48% ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Syndicated CBSN Boston CNN Heart Attack Stroke Source Type: news
Andrew Marr health: British journalist thought it was 'a funny turn' - it was a stroke
ANDREW MARR is a famed broadcast journalist, who dismissed signs of a mini-stroke as 'a funny turn'. Months later, he was rushed off to hospital, had eight months off work and was left with a permanent disability.
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
David Graham health: Doctor Who star, 96, 'can't get out' after suffering from a stroke
DAVID GRAHAM is British acting royalty. Although his name may not be instantly recognisable, there is no doubt that you will have heard of the characters he has played. Graham has had various roles within Doctor Who, as well as lending his voice to the mega successful Peppa Pig and Thunderbirds. Following a hugely successful career, at the end of last year, friend and fellow actor George Layton revealed that the 96-year-old had suffered from a stroke.
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
