http://www.mail.com/subjects/65544-stroke.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/65544-stroke.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2077872-govt-stops-study-seeking-to-prevent-type-stroke.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has halted a study testing treatments for a brain condition that can cause strokes after early results suggested invasive therapies were riskier than previously thought. The condition involves a kind of tangle in the brain called an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. Arteries and veins grow knotted together until eventual... Fri, 10 May 2013 21:59:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2077872-govt-stops-study-seeking-to-prevent-type-stroke.html 2013-05-10T21:59:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2049480-mini-stroke-limit-algeria-president-ambition.html ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The mini-stroke suffered by Algeria's president has cast fresh doubt on his perceived ambition to run for a fourth term next year as leader of one of Africa's largest and richest countries. The possibility that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, could step down could affect the stability of this key U.S. ally in the fight against ... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:37:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2049480-mini-stroke-limit-algeria-president-ambition.html 2013-04-28T18:37:59Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2049098-report-algerias-president-mini-stroke.html ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's president was hospitalized Saturday after having a mini-stroke without serious complications, the state news agency said. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, had a brief blockage of a blood vessel — called a transient ischemic attack — around noon, Rachid Bougherbal, the director of the national center of sports medicine told the s... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:54:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2049098-report-algerias-president-mini-stroke.html 2013-04-27T21:54:37Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1943282-stroke-prevention-device-misses-key-goal-study.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The future is unclear for a promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study of Boston Scientific Corp.'s Watchman device suggested it is safer than previous testing found, but may not be better than a drug that is used now for preventin... Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:12:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1943282-stroke-prevention-device-misses-key-goal-study.html 2013-03-09T19:12:34Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1911468-doctor-iraqi-president-speaking-stroke.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is able to speak and understand people around him as he recovers from a stroke he suffered in December, a doctor responsible for his medical care said Sunday. In an interview, Dr. Najmaldin Karim described the improvement in the president's health as encouraging. Karim is a neurosurgeon who is also governor of... Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:40:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1911468-doctor-iraqi-president-speaking-stroke.html 2013-02-24T11:40:28Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1883468-vatican-pope-too-weary-age-job.html LONDON (AP) — When he became pope at age 78, Benedict XVI was already the oldest pontiff elected in nearly 300 years. He's now 85, and in recent years he has slowed down significantly, cutting back his foreign travel and limiting his audiences. The pope travels to the altar in St. Peter's Basilica on a moving platform to spare him the 100-yard (-meter) wa... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1883468-vatican-pope-too-weary-age-job.html 2013-02-11T19:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875316-southern-diet-fried-foods-raise-stroke-risk.html Deep-fried foods may be causing trouble in the Deep South. People whose diets are heavy on them and sugary drinks like sweet tea and soda were more likely to suffer a stroke, a new study finds. It's the first big look at diet and strokes, and researchers say it might help explain why blacks in the Southeast — the nation's "stroke belt" — suffer more of th... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875316-southern-diet-fried-foods-raise-stroke-risk.html 2013-02-07T19:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1875342-study-stroke-survivors-think-suicide.html One in 12 stroke survivors thought about suicide or that they would be better off dead, a troubling federal survey reveals. That's more than those with other health problems such as heart attacks or cancer, and it suggests that depression after stroke is more serious than many had realized. "It was surprising" and shows a need for more treatment, said the... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1875342-study-stroke-survivors-think-suicide.html 2013-02-07T16:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851648-israels-comatose-sharon-brain-activity.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Seven years after a massive stroke removed him from office and left him in a vegetative state, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is able to process information and has exhibited "robust activity" in his brain, according to doctors who conducted recent tests. Though some hoped Sharon might regain consciousness and resume his life,... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851648-israels-comatose-sharon-brain-activity.html 2013-01-28T22:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1825074-conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89.html NEW YORK (AP) — Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died. Bain died Monday of natural causes in his hometown of Livermore, Calif., according to his daughter, Jennifer Bain. He was 89. The show that ma... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1825074-conrad-bain-diffrent-strokes-dead-89.html 2013-01-17T09:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1792736-blood-clots-danger-depends-where.html Blood clots like the one that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is being treated for following her recent concussion can occur for a host of reasons. How serious a clot is depends on where it is and why it formed. In a statement Monday, Clinton's doctors say her clot was located in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the rig... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1792736-blood-clots-danger-depends-where.html 2013-01-01T07:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1793494-illinois-sen-kirk-to-return-year-stroke.html CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senate's front door this week — a walk that's significant not just for Illinois' junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients. It's estimated only ... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1793494-illinois-sen-kirk-to-return-year-stroke.html 2012-12-31T20:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1778346-iraq-finance-minister-staff-members-kidnapped.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's finance minister on Thursday accused a "militia force" of kidnapping members of his staff and said he holds the prime minister personally responsible for their safety. Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi leveled the charges just hours after Iraq's ailing president was flown to Germany for medical treatment following a stroke. The 79-yea... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1778346-iraq-finance-minister-staff-members-kidnapped.html 2012-12-20T20:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1773436-iraqi-president-talabani-suffers-stroke.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has suffered a stroke and was in intensive care at a Baghdad hospital Tuesday, injecting new uncertainty into the country's political future a year after the U.S. military left. Although his official powers are limited, Talabani, 79, is respected by many Iraqis as a rare unifying figure seen as able to rise ab... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1773436-iraqi-president-talabani-suffers-stroke.html 2012-12-18T17:19:00Z