While heart attack and congestive heart failure affect the vessels of and ultimately the heart itself, stroke is a result of complications in the vessels that supply the brain instead. This results in localized damage to the brain. Unfortunately, many people still do not recognize the signs of a stroke and therefore delay urgently needed treatment.
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Stroke, Not Just All in Your Head
Posted in on Learning, on Treatment, tagged Blacks, cardiovascular disease, CVD, disability, morbidity, stroke, type II Diabetes, video on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama Names Daschle to Health Post
Posted in from The Hill, tagged Daschle, DHHS, health care reform, health care system, Obama, policy, transition, video on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
UPDATE February 3, 2009: Former Senator Tom Daschle removed his name from further consideration for confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services amid criticism surrounding delayed payment of taxes in excess of $100,000.00 and the perception of ethical impropriety due to his former work with health care industry clients at the firm Alston [...]
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A Minute of Health with CDC- Mumps Makes a Comeback December 24, 2009Since 2006, CDC has documented an increased number of mumps outbreaks. This podcast discusses how mumps is now occurring in teenagers and young adults, after once being thought of as only a childhood disease, and how people in public places are most at risk. Vaccination is still the safest bet to prevent mumps from occurring.
- Mumps Makes a Comeback December 24, 2009
- NYTimes: Health
- Officials Re-examining Organ Transplant Rules December 28, 2009Two kidney transplant patients who contracted brain infections raised the question of whether people with certain neurological conditions should be barred as donors.
- Months to Live: Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation December 27, 2009Inducing sleep with drugs near the end of life is a widely used treatment even as it vexes families and doctors.
- States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill December 27, 2009States that have already broadened health care coverage say that the Senate overhaul bill unfairly penalizes them.
- Officials Re-examining Organ Transplant Rules December 28, 2009
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- WashingtonPost: Health
- Military helps families find care for special-needs kids December 28, 2009When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront her autistic child's new school district and the intricacies of federal special education law.
- Maryland cancer-testing firm MarkPap lands first customer December 28, 2009Nenad and Olivera Markovic labored for years to design a low-cost kit that could be used for the early detection of cervical cancer in women in poor and underdeveloped regions. This month, the two Rockville doctors and their start-up firm landed a first customer.
- Obama lists financial rescue as 'most important thing' of his first year December 23, 2009President Obama outlined Tuesday a first-year legislative record that he said rescued the economy and placed it on a path of long-term growth, even as he acknowledged that some unfinished items would probably be more difficult to achieve heading into a midterm election year.
- Military helps families find care for special-needs kids December 28, 2009
- WSJ: Health
- Just How Big Is the Hole in the Medicare Doughnut? December 28, 2009Bridging the gap might be easier if there were more data on how big the hole was and its closing costs down the road.
- SEC: Men Made ‘Illicit Profits’ in Sanofi-Chattem Deal December 24, 2009Sure, there was a logic to Sanofi's $1.9 billion acquisition of Chattem. As we noted a few days back, it's the latest example of a big drug company looking to diversify into the more stable consumer products business. But a couple of investors may have had a bit more insight into the deal than that, the SEC alleged this week. The agency said it obt […]
- Senate Bill: Reactions from Doctors, Insurers, Business, Etc. December 24, 2009The short version: The AMA, drug industry and AARP backed the bill; health insurers and the Chamber of Commerce did not.
- Just How Big Is the Hole in the Medicare Doughnut? December 28, 2009
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