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Study finds stroke care faster for men than women
Male stroke patients are more than twice as likely as females to get clot-busting stroke treatment within 30 minutes of hospital arrival, a new study reports.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Study links psychiatric disorders to stroke risk
Getting care at a hospital for a psychiatric disorder may be linked to a higher risk of stroke in the following weeks and months, new research suggests.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pre-hospital stroke treatment linked to fewer disabilities, better survival
Stephen FellerBERLIN, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Researchers in Germany linked earlier stroke treatment -- in an ambulance on the way to the hospital -- to better outcomes and survival among patients.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

People often delay seeking stroke treatment, study says
Stephen FellerOXFORD, England, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Nearly two-thirds of stroke patients at a hospital in England waited to seek treatment, raising concern that too few people are aware of stroke symptoms.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Stroke patients have better survival odds at specialized centers
Steven Reinberg The odds of surviving a stroke are slightly better for patients treated at hospitals with a specialized stroke department, known as primary stroke centers.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Most younger people with stroke symptoms would not go to ER
Stephen FellerLOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Nearly three-quarters of people under age 45 said in a survey they would likely wait to go to the hospital after experiencing symptoms indicative of a stroke.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - January 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Researchers design transportable MRI machine
Brooks HaysWELLINGTON, New Zealand, April 22 (UPI) -- Researchers at New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington recently designed an MRI Ambulance to scan stroke patients en route to the hospital.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - April 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

More U.S. adults age 44 and younger are at risk of stroke
CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. hospital discharges for stroke among U.S. adults ages 15-44 increased from 23 percent to 53 percent from the mid-'90s to the mid-2000s, researchers say.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - September 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

U.S. hospitals improving stoke, heart care
CHICAGO, March 28 (UPI) -- For-profit U.S. hospitals are outperforming other hospitals when treating stroke, heart attack and pneumonia patients in emergency rooms, researchers say.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news