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| North Korea has returned to international isolation

... rumours started to circulate about Kim Jong-Il's health (i.e., that he has suffered a stroke: Link 5). The regime in the north ... to North Korea are not worth the risk that Kaesong presents to regime survival. Lankov ... (original story)

Porter campus will still see patients

... and leadership believes we are augmenting the healthcare provided to the region. The need for ... for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations as a stroke center, a confirmation of our quality care ... (original story)

Kim's unknown son may rule N. Korea

... suffered at least one and probably two strokes "Until now the in-fighting appeared to have ... Shigemura's sources inside the reclusive country, Kim's health continues to deteriorate and he has only ... (original story)

Stroke victim praises council care services

... Stroke victim Rodney Dobson has thanked Sunderland's top-ranked ... has turned around. If it wasn't for Health, Housing and Adult Services I probably would ... (original story)

Focus on Youth Focus

... of the Piedmont, even after suffering a stroke. Youth Focus, meanwhile, is a nonprofit that ... nonprofit that operates several agencies aimed at at-risk youth. In the interest of full disclosure, ... (original story)

Hidden sodium may be harmful

... to control high blood pressure and other health risk factors. The study singled out products such ... and subsequent heart attack, kidney disease and stroke — as well as risk of asthma, ... (original story)

STARTING LIVES ANEW

... entire family. William Guerrette Jr. suffered a stroke his first night in the hospital. The ... to the child affectionately called "Nikki", meant danger, fear and insecurity. She would often tell ... (original story)

Exercise builds small blood vessels in brain, study says

... blood flow in the brains of 12 healthy adults ages 59 to 75. None was ... who died after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Those brain slices show a lack of ... blood vessels known as capillaries. Relationship to stroke The study also might explain why people ... (original story)

Rising Costs Affect Women's Health

Almost half of women surveyed in a national poll said they had failed to seek health care for themselves or their families over the previous year because the cost was too high. (original story)

A new technique allowing prolonged temporary cerebral artery occlusion.

Conclusions Prolonged temporary cerebral vessel occlusion can be tolerated using superselective CPSS perfusion through an occluding endovascular catheter into the ischemic territory. This technique could possibly be applied in neurosurgery practice to the management of complex intracranial aneurysms. PMID: 19035732 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Journal of Neurosurgery) (original story)

Routine blood cell parameter forecasts survival after stroke

Red cell distribution width may be a useful predictor of survival in patients with stroke, an analysis of NHANES suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Stroke) (original story)

Creating new pathways in damaged brains.

Authors: Potera C Stroke patients improve body and brain with treadmill exercise. PMID: 19033899 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Nursing) (original story)

Design and rationale of current-oasis 7: a randomized, 2 x 2 factorial trial evaluating optimal dosing strategies for clopidogrel and aspirin in patients with st and non-st-elevation acute coronary syndromes managed with an early invasive strategy.

CONCLUSIONS: The CURRENT-OASIS 7 trial will help to define optimal dosing regimens for clopidogrel and ASA in patients with ST and non-ST-segment-elevation ACS treated with an early invasive strategy. PMID: 19033002 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Heart Journal) (original story)

Middle cerebral artery branch occlusion mimicking a saccular aneurysm on 3d digital subtraction angiography.

Middle cerebral artery branch occlusion mimicking a saccular aneurysm on 3D digital subtraction angiography. J Neurosurg. 2008 Dec;109(6):1123-5 Authors: Pearl MS, Tamargo R, Gailloud P The angiographic appearance of an intracranial arterial occlusion is typically distinct from that of a saccular aneurysm, with only a few reported cases of occlusion simulating aneurysm. At the same time, a small percentage of symptomatic intracranial aneurysms present with a stroke. Accurate diagnosis of these conditions is crucial, as their treatment differs. The authors report on a case of middle... (original story)

Trends in presenting characteristics and hospital mortality among patients with st elevation and non-st elevation myocardial infarction in the national registry of myocardial infarction from 1990 to 2006.

CONCLUSIONS: This large, observational database from 1990 to 2006 shows increasing prevalence of NSTEMI and, despite higher risk profile on presentation, falling risk-adjusted hospital mortality in patients with either STEMI or NSTEMI. PMID: 19032996 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Heart Journal) (original story)





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