Archive for the ‘Stroke / Neuroprotection’ Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
May 8 -- Stroke survivors derive much more benefit from walking therapy when it's conducted by a physical therapist instead of a robotic device, report researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago.When stroke patients are too weak to walk on their own, physical therapists fit the patients in ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
April 28 -- No matter when postmenopausal women start hormone replacement therapy , high doses of the treatment increase their risk of stroke, a new study finds.The risk for stroke does appear lower in younger women taking HRT and in those taking the lowest doses of estrogen, Harvard researchers ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
April 24 -- The old saying, rich or poor, it's good to have money, appears to apply to the risk of stroke, a new Dutch study finds.Wealthy Americans have a lower risk of stroke between the ages of 50 and 64, according to the data on the almost 20,000 ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
April 15 -- Prolonged fasting may increase the risk of a rare type of stroke almost three-fold, according to a new study.The research focused on five years of data from three hospitals in Iran, a Muslim country where fasting is a religious practice followed during the month of Ramadan. ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
April 10 -- A specialized treadmill can help stroke patients learn to walk correctly again, says a Baylor Health Care System study.More than 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, and many never regain the ability to walk like they did before their stroke. They often develop an abnormal ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
April 9 -- Carotid stenting -- inserting a tube into the main artery to the brain to prevent a stroke -- is as effective over the long term for high-risk patients as a surgery called endarterectomy, a study shows.But endarterectomy -- the removal of plaque from the artery -- ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Mary Harney TD, Minister for Health and Children yesterday welcomed the publication of the Irish Heart Foundation National Audit of Stroke Care, conducted with the support of the Department of Health & Children. Minister Harney notes the comprehensive nature of the report covering the spectrum of care from prevention to ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PSTI) (DAX:PJT), a bio-therapeutics company dedicated to the commercialization of non-personalized (allogeneic) cell therapy products for a variety of degenerative, ischemic and autoimmune indications, announced that the results from Fraunhofer Institute's additional pre-clinical study utilizing the Company's proprietary PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells in treating ischemic stroke showed ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Joe Korner, Director of External Affairs at The Stroke Association comments:"The Stroke Association and cardiovascular experts have recommended active intervention to assess people's risk of stroke for some time - we therefore applaud today's announcement. "An estimated 150,000 people in the UK will have a stroke each year. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The ONTARGET study is quite rightly being heralded as one of the most important cardiovascular studies for nearly ten years. It helps us understand how people in the UK at the highest risk of cardiovascular disease can best be protected from the devastating effects of heart attacks and strokes." Bryan ...
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