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Czech doctors deliver baby girl 117 days after mother's brain-death
When a helicopter rushed an unconscious Czech woman who had suffered a severe stroke to hospital in April, her chances of survival were slim - and those of the fetus she had carried in her womb for 15 weeks little better.
Source: Reuters: Health - September 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Stopping statins at 75 'raises the risk of a heart attack or stroke'
Scientists led by a hospital in Paris studied the medical records of 120,000 people and found those who stopped taking statins at 75 were also 26 per cent more likely to have a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Heartburn Drugs May Lead To Allergies, Study Suggests
(CNN) — When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies.
After analyzing health insurance data from more than 8 million people in Austria, researchers found that prescriptions of anti-allergy medications surged in those who were prescribed stomach acid inhibitors, a class of drugs that includes proton-pump inhibitors and H2 blockers.
The findings, published Tuesday in the medical journal Nature Communications, suggest that disrupting the stomach’s delicate balance o...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - July 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Allergies CNN Heartburn Source Type: news
Interhospital Transfers for Endovascular Therapy for Stroke Interhospital Transfers for Endovascular Therapy for Stroke
To what extent are acute stroke patients transferred from one hospital to another in order to obtain endovascular therapy, and how does transfer status impact outcomes?Stroke
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Journal Article Source Type: news
Conjoined Twin Girls Successfully Separated After 50 Hours of Operations
Surgeons announced on Monday that they have separated conjoined twin sisters after multiple surgeries that took more than 50 hours to complete.
Two-year-old Safa and Marwa Ullah underwent three surgeries carried out between October 2018 and February this year at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, according to the Guardian.
The sisters, who hail from Charsadda in Pakistan, were born with their skulls and blood vessels joined together.
“We are extremely excited about the future,” Zainab Bibi, the girl’s mother, said according to the Guardian. Their father died of a heart attack before they were born.
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Source: TIME: Health - July 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Gunia Tags: Uncategorized medicine onetime overnight Source Type: news
Infections, Especially UTIs, May Trigger Strokes
The study found that the risk of suffering a stroke was heightened in the weeks and months after any infection that required a trip to the hospital. But urinary tract infections (UTIs) showed the strongest link.
Source: WebMD Health - June 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
People who have worked 10 hour days for a decade 'are more likely to have a stroke'
The research was led by a team at the Paris Hospital, Versailles, France. It involved more than 143,500 participants. The results were published in the journal Stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
With a stroke, your best chance is going to the best hospital. But the ambulance might not take you there.
State rules for where such patients go are all over the map. So the EMS may go to only the nearest facility.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christine Vestal Source Type: news
Partners and close family 'may risk stroke victims' lives with their wait-and-see attitudes'
Researchers led by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, surveyed 175 stroke patients and found people with closer social circles took longer to arrive at hospital.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Having very low cholesterol DOUBLES the risk of hemorrhagic strokes in women, study finds
A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, has found that women with cholesterol 70 mg/dL were twice as likely to have a stroke compared to women with 100 mg/dL.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shop worker, 24, claims a stroke left her paralysed after taking the Pill
Bobbie Jarvis, 24, of Worcester Park, London, had been to the doctors complaining of a headache five days before having a stroke and is still in hospital.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High-volume hospitals and surgeons do better on neck artery procedures
(Reuters Health) - Patients who need blockages cleared in their carotid arteries to reduce the risk of stroke may want to seek hospitals and doctors who do a lot of these procedures, a new research review suggests.
Source: Reuters: Health - March 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Heartbreaking moment captures a father being told he has an incurable brain tumour
Geoff, whose last name is unknown, was rushed to Royal University Hospital in Stoke with an excruciating headache. Doctors feared it was a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman, 44, had a STROKE while 'nearing orgasm' when her partner was performing oral sex
A woman treated at West Middlesex University Hospital was found to have suffered from a burst blood vessel inside her skull. Her partner said 'her body was stiff' when she passed out during sex.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News 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
