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Items 231 through 240 of 1001 items:

231. The bitter apple that can boost your longevity found
http://www.newspostonline.com/health/the-bitter-apple-that-can-boost-your-longevity-found-2-20081125
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2008-11-25 09:07:08
Description: COLFAX, N.C. (WGHP) -- At a small ceremony Monday morning, U.S. Postal Service officials honored a mail carrier from Kernersville for saving a man's life. Dan Marshall had been taking a walk in his neighborhood when he had a stroke and fell into a ditch near his home. As Charles "Tony" Hood delivered mail along his rural route in Colfax in September, he noticed Marshall lying in the ditch and stopped to help.

232. Colfax Postal Carrier Honored for Saving Man's Life
http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7935101&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode
=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

2008-11-24 15:03:57
Description: COLFAX, N.C. (WGHP) -- At a small ceremony Monday morning, U.S. Postal Service officials honored a mail carrier from Kernersville for saving a man's life. Dan Marshall had been taking a walk in his neighborhood when he had a stroke and fell into a ditch

233. Stroke Drug Reduces Damage
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18048121/detail.html

2008-11-24 09:07:51
Description: It's the number one cause of disability in the United States, but there's only one FDA approved drug to treat stroke patients in the first critical minutes. Researchers say a combination treatment could stop patients from slipping away. Stroke survivor Helen Whitehead is one of the first to receive a new experimental treatment. The drug she received is minocycline, an antibiotic that travels to the brain and protects neurons.

234. Promising hormone treatment for Alzheimer's disease and stroke
http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news.asp?artid=12875&title=Promising-hormone-treatment-for-Alzhe
imer's-disease-and-stroke

2008-11-23 18:04:59
Description: Saint Louis University researchers have identified a novel way of getting a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease and stroke into the brain where it can do its work. "We found a unique approach for delivering drugs to the brain," says William A. Banks, MD, professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University. "We're turning off the guardian that's keeping the drugs out of the brain."

235. Children of centenarians live longer, healthier
http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=69324&cid=13

2008-11-23 09:05:22
Description: NEW YORK, Nov 23,(bdnews24.com/Reuters Health) - People who make it to the age of 100 may indeed have some "good genes" that they pass on their children, according to a new study. The study, of more than 600 older US adults, found that the children of centenarians tended to live longer and were substantially less likely to develop diabetes or suffer a heart attack or stroke over four years. The results suggest that children of centenarians tend to retain a "cardiovascular advantage" over their peers as they age, note Emily R. Adams and colleagues at Boston University and Boston Medical Center.

236. Specialized Care and Telemedicine Improve Stroke Outcomes
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/Strokes/11864

2008-11-20 15:05:39
Description: BERLIN, Nov. 20 -- The long-term prognosis for stroke patients is better at community hospitals equipped with monitoring technology, trained multidisciplinary teams, and teleconsultation capability, researchers found. Action Points -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Explain to interested patients that the study showed both short- and long-term improvement in stroke outcomes with more specialized care at community hospitals. Note that the findings may have been influenced by changing patient characteristics, as stroke patients were preferentially sent to centers with more specialized care available. Hospitals that implemented such stroke unit treatment in the Bavaria region of Germany significantly reduced combined death, institutional care, and disability among stroke patients by 35% at 12 months (P<0.01) and by 18% at 30 months (P=0.031) compared with other community hospitals, said Heinrich J. Audebert, M.D., of Charite Hospital here, and colleagues.

237. Veteran Chicago officer fired over $1 snack
http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/1758619-Veteran-Chicago-officer-fired-over-1-snack/

2008-11-20 12:07:19
Description: Veteran Chicago officer fired over $1 snack By Angela Rozas Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — A 22-year veteran Chicago police officer was fired last month over charges he stole a $1 bag of trail mix from Walgreens. Aaron Pena was known as the "mayor of 26th Street" by residents in the Ogden District for his helpfulness in the community, according to testimony before the Chicago Police Board released Wednesday. City attorneys alleged that Pena went to the Walgreens in the 1900 block of West Cermak Road in August 2007, bought two bags of trail mix and then took a third from the store without paying. Pena was recorded on store security cameras. Pena testified that he had opened one bag and thought it was so good he wanted a third. But he said that as he walked to the front of the store to pay, he became concerned that he couldn't hear his radio. He said he forgot about the extra bag when he went outside. "It had slipped my mind ... what had occurred," Pena testified. Pena told the board he had a stroke in 2005 that occasionally left him "unfocused." He was criminally charged with misdemeanor retail theft but acquitted.

238. African American women have higher risk of strokes
http://www.carolinapeacemaker.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=92617&sID=4

2008-11-19 12:07:57
Description: African American women have higher risk of strokes by Yasmine Regester Carolina Peacemaker Originally posted 11/19/2008 According to the Tri State Stroke Network, stroke is the third leading cause of death in North Carolina and stroke death rates for African Americans are nearly 50 percent higher than for whites. African American women are uniquely affected by strokes because they are at a greater risk than African American men and Caucasian women. Some risk factors include medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, which are all conditions that exist in high numbers in the African American community. “Hypertension is one of the biggest risk factors involving strokes,” said Waqiah Ellis, RN and Director of Staff Education at Moses Cone Hospital. Other risk factors that cannot be controlled are age, race, gender and family history. Women who are pregnant or who smoke when taking the “pill” significantly increase their chances of having a stroke.

239. Statins For All? Not So Fast, Expert Says
http://www.wsbtv.com/health/18014423/detail.html

2008-11-19 09:06:44
Description: Study Said Crestor Lowers Heart Risks Wednesday, November 19, 2008 A recent study said that anti-cholesterol drug Crestor could save lives by lowering the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with normal cholesterol levels. But an expert from Consumer Reports says patients should be cautious about taking drugs known as statins because of the new information. Dr. Marvin Lipman wrote that when the report came out, his patients started asking about it. He said that, while there were 18,000 people in the group studied, it was a group very unlikely to have heart attacks and strokes. While the group that took Crestor had a much lower rate of problems than those on placebo, the actual number of patients with a cardiovascular event was low in each group. He said that, in short, doctors would have to treat 120 people for nearly two years to prevent even one heart attack or stroke. And those who took the drug also had a greater risk of blood-sugar problems. Plus, taking Crestor for a year can cost more than $1,000. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published

240. Gore-tex-type Device Designed To Stop Strokes And Mini-strokes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118131855.htm

2008-11-18 12:48:53
Description: A study is under way at Rush University Medical Center using a small, soft-patch device made of a Gore-tex-type material – often used to make durable outerwear – to close a common hole found in the heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in order to prevent recurrent strokes and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) in adults.