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...goal was not on a power play situation, but rather on a stroke of luck after Saints forward Whitney Carbone was nailed in the leg while blocking a shot...
...makers of HRT pills (most of which contain the hormones progestin and estrogen) to add another warning to their labels: that HRT may raise the risk of dementia in older women. A watershed 2002 study had already linked the drugs to increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, leading experts to conclude that for many women the risks of long-term use outweigh the benefits. The recent FDA directive was based on data published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that women on Prempro doubled their risk of Alzheimer's. --By Sora Song
...helmet using a liquid-cooling technology developed by NASA and designed to cool only the head shows great promise as a way to reduce the severity of neural damage. The researchers hope such a helmet may someday be used by emergency personnel to slow the progression of a stroke and lengthen the time a patient is eligible for clot-busting therapy...
...corkscrew The most direct approach to fighting stroke is to break up the blood clot that is causing it; the risk is that the clot will break into smaller particles that then lodge deeper in the brain. At the meeting last week, researchers reported that a tiny corkscrew device, housed in a thin catheter, can snag clots and pull them out without disrupting them--stopping the stroke damage almost instantly. The mechanical embolus removal in cerebral ischemia (MERCI) system restored blood flow in 54% of patients as long as eight hours after initial stroke symptoms appeared...
Sound hard? Look at it this way: if you do these things to reduce your risk of stroke, you'll also reduce your risk of a heart attack...