Each year, hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America suffer a stroke, and it is expected that the number of strokes per year increases dramatically as the population ages. This is an epidemic that is beginning to emerge, requiring immediate action to avoid a crisis. Many of these ...
Thousands of people flock to Mount Everest each year, hoping to summit the world’s most famous mountain. Sadly, not all of them make it back. When you’re climbing a mountain that’s 8,849 meters tall, accidents happen. Sometimes bad weather rolls in, sometimes climbers get injured, anda...
While improvements in technology clearly have many benefits, we must remain mindful that technology can influence the brain. Our question is: Can we find a way to still use GPS but reduce the harmful effects on memory? The challenge is to create other forms of GPS navigation that will remai...
(1) a new generation of defibrillators and early warning software aimed at offering heart patients greater protection (2) sudden death from cardiac arrest.In Germany alone around 100,000 people die annually as a result of cardiac arrest and many of these cases (3) by disruption to the heart...
We circle April 15 on our calendars in bold, red strokes, making the day stand out like a swollen thumb. And, of course, in the United States, there's the Internal Revenue Service, which collected more than $2.4 trillion in revenue and processed more than 235 million tax returns in ...
“imagine someone showing up for treatment who'd had five heart attacks before, or five strokes,” hall continued. “this is every bit as dangerous, and naloxone is something that we can all use to save a life.” more information the national institute on drug abuse has more...
High blood pressure is one of the leading cause of strokes, especially if it'sassociated with obesity. Indeed, excess fatty tissues cause reactions and inflammations that enhance the attachment of particles causing generation of clots in the (already weakened) brain arteries. If the brain is no...
of what is widely acknowledged as its50th anniversary— another important anniversary in hip-hop is happening this year as well. Specifically, it’s been 30 years since 1994, when a new generation entered the music industry and set the genre on a course that in many ways continues until ...
lifetime risk of stroke than men do. Women also are more likely to die from them, largely because they tend to have more severe strokes later in life. They also are more likely to be misdiagnosed when they seek emergency treatment for stroke symptoms and to be more disabled after a ...
For example, people with myopia were historically valued in artisan contexts, such as medieval European monasteries, where illuminating manuscripts and painting required making tiny, precise brushstrokes. 1. What can be learned about the first myopia glasses?