Sentences with phrase «for stroke in»

Diabetes as a risk factor for stroke in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta - analysis of 64 cohorts, including 775,385 individuals and 12,539 strokes

A more preliminary study (just 18 patients) using the same approach at Stanford and University of Pittsburgh was published this summer in Stroke, which says it was the «first reported intracerebral stem cell transplant study for stroke in North America.»

The only approved drug for stroke in the United States is an injectable medication called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA.

«From a care standpoint, cognitive decline is not only a strong marker for neurological deterioration and physical health in older adults, but also serves as a marker for stroke in old age,» he said.

«This is very exciting because we haven't had a new drug for stroke in decades, and this suggests a target for such a drug,» says lead author Dr. Zsuzsanna Fabry, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine.

ACEIs and ARBs were not associated with a decreased risk for stroke in patients with diabetes.

«Our study found that alcohol is an independent risk factor for stroke in patients with AF.

There was also less than one additional case for every 1,000 women per year for heart disease and for stroke in the hormone - treated women compared with those on placebo.

Not exact matches

These products are designed to help make a process (stroke rehab, seizure monitoring, breast milk pumping) easier for consumers and patients, not the myriad other players in the health system (physicians, hospitals, insurers).

As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

If I'm in the African bush and I see a lion sauntering up to me slowly, looking friendly, I'm not going to just sit down and wait for that lion fall asleep in my lap while I stroke its mane.

The country's National Center for Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) told users of the mobile game not to use their real names and warned them about the risks of heat stroke in the muggy Japanese summer.

The Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse estimates that tobacco cost the country $ 17.1 billion in 2002 and the Heart and Stroke Foundation notes there are over 37,000 needless deaths per year from tobacco.

Indeed, for all the excitement over paradigm - shifting technologies in healthcare and medicine — gene - editing through CRISPR, virtual reality surgical training — it seems we are seeing more and more examples of people solving age - old problems through a stroke of ingenuity.

Yes, they might be able to sort out that immediate issue for you but in the same stroke you may end up hiring the wrong person long term,» Varna says.

In my experience, and in the experience of many other men, this shaving gel minimizes accidental slices while maximizing shaving efficiency, allowing for long, productive strokeIn my experience, and in the experience of many other men, this shaving gel minimizes accidental slices while maximizing shaving efficiency, allowing for long, productive strokein the experience of many other men, this shaving gel minimizes accidental slices while maximizing shaving efficiency, allowing for long, productive strokes.

Research In Motion, for instance, rolled out the BlackBerry in 1999 and has struggled to top its original stroke of genius ever sincIn Motion, for instance, rolled out the BlackBerry in 1999 and has struggled to top its original stroke of genius ever sincin 1999 and has struggled to top its original stroke of genius ever since.

Parker adds that unlike the fight for the right to vote, which was legislated with the stroke of a pen, today's gaps in equality can't be mandated, and won't change over night.

In fact, the link was so strong that for every additional cup of coffee people drank, their risk of suffering heart failure or stroke went down 8 percent, compared to non-coffee drinkers.

When Facebook snapped up WhatsApp and Oculus in a span of five weeks, for instance, it looked like a master stroke: a cash - rich juggernaut using its vast resources to assure long - term dominance, no matter what the future held.

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

(For example, Optiva ads that ran in national consumer magazines claimed that using the competing Braun product wouldn't prevent the growth of bacteria that might contribute to heart disease, stroke, low birth weight, and other life - threatening conditions.)

In a stroke of good timing, gaming company Zynga announced on Saturday that it is now testing out Bitcoin as a payment option for virtual - good purchases in its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and otherIn a stroke of good timing, gaming company Zynga announced on Saturday that it is now testing out Bitcoin as a payment option for virtual - good purchases in its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and otherin its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and others.

Honestly, it sometimes seems like everything we learn in years of schooling and training is boiled down into a series of broad stroke rules about how much you should save, spend on a house, set aside for taxes and on and on.

Mr. Rossi also served as CEO of Heart and Stroke Foundation — one of Canada's largest non-profit organizations — overseeing consecutive years of record fundraising combining for over $ 500 million in total and launching many new, life - saving initiatives.

The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.

The great victory of the Federal Reserve in the half - cycle since 2009 was not ending the global financial crisis; the crisis actually ended in March 2009 with the stroke of a pen that changed accounting rule FAS157 and eliminated mark - to - market accounting for banks (instantly removing the specter of widespread insolvencies by allowing «significant judgment» in valuing distressed assets).

Even if the meeting isn't in Pyongyang, there will be plenty of ways Kim can stroke the president's ego during their in - person session — giving him lavish gifts, for example, or praising various Trump Organization products (such as Trump Wines or Trump University).

He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief.

If the brain as a matter of course loses plasticity early in life, then the proper counsel for seriously disabled stroke victims is resignation.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

«One woman, for example, wrote that her father suffered a severe stroke caused by a blood clot in his brain.

In one study, for example, people lying on their backs while a machine stroked their backs watched a video of someone else's back being stroked, and some felt that they were floating facedown above their own body watching it being stroked.

Astronomers can forecast them out for the next 10,000 years and back in time for the last 10,000 years with a few strokes on their laptops.

For them it was God in the back bedroom with a tube sock, but the end result is the same... As to who or what did the stroking is the real debate.

Heading to church on Sunday gives you your next fix with the Priest telling you how important you are to God and that you will get to live for eternity in heaven, which is whatever you want it to be... talk about an ego stroke.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

Hi to all whom I miss so much... Have had mentioned to you that I had a stroke and was rushed to Hospital where I remained unaware of self for few days... thankfully I got out of that with out losing any of my abilities... now am in Aden, Yemen where from I will fly to Amman, Jordan for further medical testes and attention... Am not sure whether I will be able to remain in communication with you but assure you as many know of my Reality and genuinity....

Stoicism is doubtless the most developed expression of this ethics of the present; the present, for Stoicism, is the unique time of salvation; the past and the future are equally discredited; in one stroke, hope is rejected for the same reason as fear, as a disturbance, an agitation, which proceeds from a revocable opinion concerning imminent evils or coming goods.

Now we are to approve of killing the conscious and protesting, for in the United States, doctors starved and dehydrated stroke patient Marjorie Nighbert to death despite her pleading «I'm hungry,» «I'm thirsty,» «Please feed me,» and «I want food.»

She absently strokes my face, the same way she used to do when she was just a wee baby with a triangle shaped mouth and my boy holds my hair in his fist again, they are both mine still for just a while longer and I'm trying to count the moments on a string of jewels.

(In TA terms, such health - jeopardizing behavior as overeating and smoking are attempts to comfort oneself and to compensate for feelings of stroke - deprivation.)

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

However, in the absence of genuine sexual intimacy (best defined as «in - to - me - see»), we settle for sexual intensity: erotica, pornography, an office romance, an extramarital affair or whatever strokes the ego and provides the sexual high we crave.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

To use A. C. Campbell's illustration (without accepting his conclusion), in order for a person to hear Big Ben strike ten times he must be present at the beginning and at the end of the series in order to know that these ten strokes succeeded each other.

it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

In a stroke of accurate wit Dean Inge of St. Paul's Cathedral in London once described the common longing for comfortable religioIn a stroke of accurate wit Dean Inge of St. Paul's Cathedral in London once described the common longing for comfortable religioin London once described the common longing for comfortable religion.

You know, the kind that strokes your ego, boosts your self esteem, tweaks your life, kind of like Dr. Phil with a few Bible verses thrown in for good measure.