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Sleeping more than nine hours a night doubles risk of stroke, study finds
Researchers at the University of Galway, Ireland, analyzed data from 5,000 people. They found those sleeping more than nine hours were at higher risk of having a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Normal People’ Director Lenny Abrahamson Compares Paul Mescal’s Dramatic Rise to a “Three-Panel Cartoon Strip”
By a stroke of good fortune, Lenny Abrahamson happened to be in London on the day that Paul Mescal received his Oscar nomination for Aftersun, having flown over to see the actor perform on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire. “We ended up having a drink afterwards with a bunch of people and…#lennyabrahamson #paulmescal #aftersun #streetcar #irish #hollywood #mescal #connellwaldron #svengali #bafta
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What to Know About Diabetes and the Risk of Silent Heart Attacks
At first it seemed like a routine call—something the paramedics had dealt with countless times before. A man in his mid-50s was having a heart attack, and his physician had called for emergency support. But when the paramedics arrived, the physician pulled them aside and told them something peculiar: the man had no cardiovascular symptoms whatsoever.
The man had come to his doctor’s office because he’d woken early the previous morning sweating and with a sharp pain in his left wrist. These symptoms had quickly subsided and he’d gone back to sleep. Later, after going about his day, he’d visited...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Life-saving treatment to remove stroke clots and save thousands of lives
A CLOT-BUSTING procedure that takes just 20 minutes could transform stroke treatment and save thousands of lives, experts say. The technique, developed by scientists at the National University of Ireland, Galway, is faster and believed to be safer than current surgical methods.
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke consultant shortage 'hurtling towards crisis'
Some 48% of hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not have the staff they need, figures suggest.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Northern Ireland prepares for momentous abortion, same-sex marriage changes
Campaigners who fought for decades to end Northern Ireland's same-sex marriage ban and restrictions on abortion gathered in Belfast on Monday to prepare for a momentous change to the laws on both at the stroke of midnight.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Drugmaker touts major heart benefits of fish oil derivative, experts reserve judgment
Irish pharmaceutical company Amarin sent a glowing announcement to investors Monday that its drug Vascepa, a purified fish oil derivative, was linked to a 25% reduced risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Drugmaker touts major heart benefits of fish oil derivative
Irish pharmaceutical company Amarin sent a glowing announcement to investors Monday that its drug Vascepa, a purified fish oil derivative, was linked to a 25% reduced risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Former nurse, 43, left paralysed by an agonising spinal stroke
Anne Marie Leonard, who lives in Perth, Australia after emigrating there, had the stroke after flying back to Ireland to surprise her mother for her 70th birthday.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Woman Woke Up With a British Accent. Here ’s What to Know About Foreign Accent Syndrome
This article originally appeared on Health.com
Source: TIME: Health - February 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme / Health.com Tags: Uncategorized healthytime Mental Health/Psychology onetime Source Type: news
Rising to the Challenge: Stroke care received between April 2016 to March 2017 The Fourth SSNAP Annual Report
The report highlights the improvements made in stroke care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the past four years. Using real world quality improvement case studies, it outlines the different approaches taken by local teams to improve their stroke services across the patient pathway; what was the challenge faced? What was the solution? What impact did the QI project have on care processes? The report also offers practical tips and recommendations on how other clinical teams could adapt similar QI approaches to improve the care provided to their patients in the future.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke: Brain attack left policewoman unable to move or speak for nearly three months
CLODAGH Dunlop can recall the exact moment her life changed for ever. It was Easter Monday, 2015, and she was enjoying a day at home in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland.
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Has Died Aged 91
(LOS ANGELES) — Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91.
Hefner died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement.
As much as anyone, Hefner helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversation.
In 1953, a time when states could legally ban contraceptives, when the word “pregnant” was not allowed on “I L...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Dalton / AP Tags: Uncategorized onetime remembrance Source Type: news
Stroke vigilance urged as data shows women more at risk
42% more women than men died of stroke in Ireland in 2013, CSO figures show
Source: The Irish Times - Health - March 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Charity claims failure of protection over junk food adverts
Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke says watchdog 'unable’ to regulate industry online
Source: The Irish Times - Health - April 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
