If you’ve ever been in the hospital, you know a lot of information comes your way when you’re headed home. There’s paperwork to sign, prescriptions to fill, appointments to make, instructions to go over, symptoms to watch out for and the list goes on. Even when you’ve got a family member with you, it’s hard…
Knowing how to prevent a stroke and learning if you are at risk doesn’t have to be a mystery. Most risk factors can be changed, treated or medically managed. Here are 12 health issues you can avoid or control to lower your risk for stroke. High blood pressure (hypertension) – The single most important risk…
I came across a news article that finally validated my coffee habit. The study touts that drinking coffee is tied to a lower risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS). And we’re not talking one cup, but upward of five full cups of coffee a day. But then that little voice of reason that likes to…
Alzheimer’s disease has been compared to everything from a ruthless thief to a raging wildfire — one taking away everything and one destroying everything in its path. While science and medicine work to find answers, no sure-fire ways are yet known to prevent or cure this irreversible disorder that now affects someone in the United…
Three years ago, 23-year-old Amber Neal was feeling the glow of her first pregnancy, anxiously awaiting the joyous event of her son’s birth. But something odd and troubling cast a pall over the Mayfield, Kentucky, resident: Without warning her right eye would twitch uncontrollably, her mouth would draw up and she was unable to speak…
The practice of letting go You know you should. Everybody says it’ll help you feel better. The hardest part is walking or rolling into the room that first time. The expectations, the ideas — let them go. Ignore the voices that say you must have a certain something or be a certain way and bring…
One day after her knee surgery, Phyllis Atzinger experienced a stroke while in the hospital recovering. Luckily she was in the right place at the right time. Her neurosurgeon, Shervin Dashti, M.D., Ph.D., with Norton Neuroscience Institute, explains how he stopped the stroke from damaging Atzinger’s brain using a minimally invasive and highly successful approach,…
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