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Items 221 through 230 of 1001 items:

221. Former Indonesian minister dies
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=184670

2008-12-12 18:03:12
Description: Former Indonesian minister dies One of Indonesia's best known political figures, Ali Alatas, has died at the age of 76. He served as his country's foreign minister during the violent withdrawal from East Timor in 1999. Later he became Indonesia's ambassador to the UN, and he most recently acted as an adviser to the current President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Alatas was being treated in a hospital in Singapore, but suffered a stroke last week.

222. Robotic Technology Improves Stroke Rehab
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1607523/robotic_technology_improves_stroke_rehab/

2008-12-08 09:05:01
Description: A new technology may buy stroke patients extra time to recover. Using a new, hand-operated robotic device and functional MRI (fMRI), scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have found chronic stroke patients can function normally again. fMRI maps the brain to track stroke rehabilitation. “We have shown that the brain has the ability to regain function through rehabilitative exercises following a stroke,” A. Aria Tzika, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, was quoted as saying. “We have learned that the brain is malleable, even six months or more after a stroke, which is a longer period of time than previously thought. Our research is important because 65 percent of people who have a stroke affecting hand use are still unable to incorporate the affected hand into their daily activities after six months.”

223. Ultrasound Screening Helps Prevent Stroke in Children with Sickle ...
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/547116/

2008-12-06 12:03:03
Description: Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions. Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD), along with regular transfusions for children found to be at high risk, reduced stroke to one-tenth of the incidence found before TCD was introduced.

224. DH plan to boost public knowledge of stroke
http://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=31a43db2-f0ad-4d45-9507-ff585a183704

2008-12-05 12:04:54
Description: The government is to spend £12million on a publicity campaign that will boost public recognition of a stroke and allow people to seek help sooner. The focus on stroke services has been on the NHS in the past year since the government’s three year National Stroke Strategy was launched, but the focus is now switching to the public and the part they can play in helping. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the UK and the single largest cause of adult disability in England with an estimated 150,000 people having a stroke in the UK each year and causing over 67,000 deaths.

225. Men Over Age 59 With Transient Ischaemic Attack or Stroke May ...
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/852571020057CCF685257515007A693B

2008-12-04 18:04:32
Description: CHICAGO -- December 4, 2008 -- The prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm is significantly increased in men aged 59 years and older who have had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke, results of a prospective study suggest. The finding could lead to increased screening and earlier treatment of this high-risk subgroup, said Neils H.A. Van Lindert, MD, Gelre Hospitals Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

226. Stem Cell Claims Could Be Overly Optimistic
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1603994/stem_cell_claims_could_be_overly_optimistic/

2008-12-04 09:05:21
Description: Consumers looking for stem cell treatment be warned: A study found little medical evidence to back up claims made on stem cell clink Web sites. Researchers say the Web sites in the study portrayed their therapies as safe, effective and ready for routine use. However, published research doesn't support that "overoptimistic" picture. Scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada published the findings in the December issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell. The study is "a very important wake-up call," said Dr. George Daley, past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, who had no role in the new report. "I think these Web sites are dangerous," said Daley, a Boston stem cell researcher. "They over promise effectiveness and safety of the therapy and they completely underestimate and under inform about risks . ... (Such) over hyped marketing directly to the patient is putting patients at risk of financial exploitation at the very least, and physical danger at the worst."

227. Robotic Device Could Help Stroke Patients
http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/621934.html

2008-12-04 09:05:20
Description: THURSDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've developed a hand-exercising robotic device that appears to help stroke victims recover motor skills, even more than six months after a stroke. Brain scans suggested that the device, which patients squeeze with their stroke-afflicted hands, boosted activity in the part of the brain that handles use of the hands.

228. Study: Web Sites Touting Stem Cell Therapies Overly Optimistic
http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7994943&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutC
ode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1

2008-12-03 15:04:34
Description: /03/2008 -- Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. The Web sites in the study generally portrayed their therapies as safe, effective and ready for routine use, but published research doesn't support that "overoptimistic" picture, the study authors said. The analysis is presented in the December issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell by scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada. They cautioned that their overall findings can't be applied to the claims of any individual clinic. The study is "a very important wake-up call," said Dr. George Daley, past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, who had no role in the new report.

229. Stem-cell operation helps stroke patient
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5275950.ece

2008-12-02 15:05:29
Description: therapy for the first time, in the only clinical trial of its kind. The 49-year-old man is doing well after the operation in Germany, in which genetically engineered bone marrow stem cells were injected into his brain in the hope of assisting recovery. The trial, led by Professor Thomas Brinker, of the International Neuroscience Institute in Hanover, is designed only to assess the safety of the new technique, and not to monitor its effectiveness. It will eventually involve 20 patients. Even so, Professor Brinker said yesterday that the early indications looked good. “We see a path of recovery as good as this only in the minority of patients, so it is an encouraging start,” he said. “It is most important that we found [that there were] definitively no side-effects from the treatment.”

230. Inactivity a risk to depressed heart patients: study
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=183513

2008-11-26 15:04:46
Description: The main reason depressed heart disease patients are at higher risk for further heart trouble is because they exercise less and adopt other unhealthy habits, researchers said. In their study of 1,017 heart disease patients whose conditions were stable, the 20 percent who were depressed were at significantly higher risk of cardiovascular problems. Depression is about three times more common among heart attack patients than in the general population, and depression increases the risk of a second heart attack, earlier research showed. Patients in the study who were depressed had a roughly one-third increased risk of heart attack, stroke or other cardiac event. But the higher risk disappeared after adjusting for patients' lack of physical activity, increased smoking rates and their tendency to stop taking medications properly.