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Well: My Stroke of Luck
Andrew C. Revkin, an environmental journalist, shares what he learned after a stroke forced him to interrupt his nonstop career.    
Source: NYT Health - May 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ANDREW C. REVKIN Tags: Heart Body Stroke Medicine and Health Hospitals Emergency Medical Treatment Featured Source Type: news

Luke Perry Died of a Stroke. Here ’ s How That Happens to Someone His Age.
The actor ’ s death leaves middle-age Americans wondering how it could happen — and whether it could happen to them. Here ’ s what scientists know.
Source: NYT Health - March 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: GINA KOLATA Tags: Stroke Brain Blood Clots Age, Chronological Hemorrhagic Stroke Aneurysms Deaths (Fatalities) Perry, Luke Massachusetts General Hospital University of Pittsburgh Source Type: news

Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, Heart and Stroke Patients Go Missing
Emergency physicians are seeing declines in the number of patients arriving with cardiac problems. Some say they were afraid to go to the hospital.
Source: NYT Health - April 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata Tags: Emergency Medical Treatment Heart Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Hospitals Stroke Fear (Emotion) Deaths (Fatalities) United States Jaipur (India) Austria Source Type: news

Here ’ s How Strokes Happen When You ’ re as Young as Luke Perry
The actor ’ s death leaves middle-age Americans wondering how it could happen — and whether it could happen to them. Here ’ s what scientists know.
Source: NYT Health - March 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: GINA KOLATA Tags: Stroke Brain Blood Clots Age, Chronological Hemorrhagic Stroke Aneurysms Deaths (Fatalities) Perry, Luke Massachusetts General Hospital University of Pittsburgh Source Type: news

Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Man Who Wobbled
Can you solve the medical mystery of a middle-aged man with panic attacks and dizziness?
Source: NYT Health - February 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By LISA SANDERS, M.D. Tags: Doctors Mental Health and Disorders Stroke think like a doctor Hospitals Emergency Medical Treatment Lisa Sanders Featured Tests (Medical) Source Type: news

Mending Hearts: A Sea Change in Treating Heart Attacks
The death rate from coronary heart disease has dropped 38 percent in a decade. One reason is that hospitals rich and poor have streamlined emergency treatment.
Source: NYT Health - June 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: GINA KOLATA Tags: Heart Camden (NJ) American Heart Assn Stroke Krumholz, Harlan M Stents (Medical Devices) Hospitals Emergency Medical Treatment National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute American College of Cardiology Source Type: news

Drug Aimed at Inflammation May Lower Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer
A milestone finding for researchers, the connection of inflammatory responses to such illnesses could open the door to new treatments.
Source: NYT Health - August 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DENISE GRADY Tags: Brigham and Women's Hospital Lancet, The (Journal) Heart Lung Cancer Smoking and Tobacco Cholesterol Research Preventive Medicine Stroke Immune System Statins (Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs) Clinical Trials Methotrexate (Drug) Ridke Source Type: news

Trilobites: He Ate the World ’ s Hottest Pepper, Then Landed in the Hospital With ‘ Thunderclap ’ Headaches
After eating the Carolina Reaper during a contest, an unidentified patient suffered headaches so severe he was hospitalized. The symptoms resembled those of a stroke.
Source: NYT Health - April 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JAMES GORMAN Tags: Headaches British Medical Journal Henry Ford Hospital Cooperstown (NY) Guinness World Records (Book) Carolina Reaper Source Type: news

Treating Regret
Despite the pervasiveness of regret, doctors often overlook it.
Source: NYT Health - January 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dhruv Khullar, M.D. Tags: Stroke Emergency Medical Treatment Hospitals Ambulances Brain Doctors Source Type: news

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?
Except for treating Covid-19, many hospitals seem to be eerily quiet.
Source: NYT Health - April 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Telemedicine Heart Stroke Hospitals Anxiety and Stress Quarantines Deaths (Fatalities) Source Type: news

Coronavirus May Pose a New Risk to Younger Patients: Strokes
Doctors have reported a flurry of cases in Covid-19 patients — including a healthy 27-year-old emergency medical technician in Queens. After a month in the hospital, he is learning to walk again.
Source: NYT Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Deep-Vein Thrombosis Seizures (Medical) Stroke Fever Emergency Medical Treatment Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Ventilators (Medical) Hospitals Brain Blood Clots Lungs Quarantines Mount Sinai Medical Center New Engla Source Type: news

Where Have All the Hospital Patients Gone?
Except in areas where Covid is surging, there are still no lines of patients in the hospital halls.
Source: NYT Health - October 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Pauline W. Chen, M.D. Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Emergency Medical Treatment Hospitals Stroke Medicine and Health Hygiene and Cleanliness Heart Anxiety and Stress Deaths (Fatalities) Source Type: news

I ’m Haunted by Sisters With Sickle Cell: Two Thrived. Two Suffered.
The cruelty of their unequal outcomes — with one pair freed of disabling symptoms and the other’s suffering unabated — stayed with me.
Source: NYT Health - September 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata Tags: Genetics and Heredity Genetic Engineering Boston Children ' s Hospital Immunotherapy Clinical Trials Women and Girls Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Tests (Medical) Transfusions Source Type: news

E.R. Doctors Misdiagnose Patients With Unusual Symptoms
Doctors fail to recognize serious conditions like stroke and sepsis in tens of thousands of patients each year, according to a new study.
Source: NYT Health - December 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Reed Abelson Tags: Emergency Medical Treatment Doctors Hospitals Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality American College of Emergency Physicians Deaths (Fatalities) Medicine and Health Johns Hopkins University Source Type: news