Stroke

information on modern medicine. While Dr. Abramson was skimming the journal, he began to read about a new study that intrigued him. This study was publicizing the ability of Pravachol, a statin drug; that may also be able to reduce the risk of strokes in the drug’s users. He found that not only had the journal had a misleading tone but once he delved deeper into the findings, that the study only pertained to patients who had previous heart attacks or unstable angina. This meant that the…

its ability to keep its temperature at a steady 98.6. In conditions of extreme warmth and/or during intense physical activity, the body's temperature continues to climb. When it reaches 104 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, the person suffers from heat stroke. Unless the victim gets immediate emergency treatment, damage occurs to the brain, internal organs, and the muscles. This is eventually followed by death. While most people seek to cool themselves when they feel…

1) Angina is a chest pain caused by your heart muscle not getting enough oxygen-rich blood. The pain from angina can also cause pain in your shoulders, neck, arms, jaw, and back. Why angina is a warning sign for something more serious. Any pain in your body can have an explanation and when you are getting pain it is always important to get it checked out because angina is a pain that is caused by your heart. This could be a warning that you are getting a heart attack, or you could have a heart…

The patient is an eighty- five-year-old man by the name of James Williams who is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is my grandfather’s older twin brother who suffered a stroke a couple years back. Before the stroke he was a normal elderly man with regular speech and movements. One could barely tell the twins apart. Now post trauma, James seemed to have aged a lot faster than his brother. What once was clear and audible; his speech is now muffled, slurred, and repetitive. Once smooth and sturdy…

Six years imprisoned in her own body, unable to communicate with anyone, and with no one knowing she was alert. Julia Tavalaro was 27 when she suffered multiple strokes and fell victim to the rare Locked-In Syndrome. None of her family noticed that Tavalaro was awake or trying to communicate with them, it was a therapists who noticed that Tavalaro seemed to follow her with her eyes. A disease often misdiagnosed by doctors as a vegetative state, or pseudo-coma. She was trapped without anyone…

certain degree of memory loss that just means you’re aging. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia and accounts for sixty to eighty percent of dementia cases. The second most common type of dementia is vascular dementia, which happens after a stroke. Some causes of dementia may be permanent. Dementia is, at times, falsely associated as senility or senile. Damage to brain cells is the…

Use Different Strokes The different areas of your car require different strokes. When cleaning the exterior windows, use horizontal strokes and vice-versa. It's a simple technique, but it will help prevent streaking. And if you do notice streaking, you will know which area needs cleaning again: the inside or the outside. 4. Clean…

and Prescription drugs can turn in the brain to produce their euphoric effects. However, most of them also have severe negative consequences in the brain that can cause many sorts of health issues and risks that can turn deadly such as seizures, stroke, and brain damage that can affect all aspects of daily life, and relationships to friends and families. Nicotine is an addictive sedative found in cigarettes and other forms of tobacco. Tobacco smokers risks of getting cancer, emphysema,…

The first stroke caused severe damage to the occipital lobe on the left side of his brain while the second stroke damaged the identical area on the right side of his brain. Consequently, these strokes completely disabled both his left and right visual cortex which made him blind. Although most people are blind from eye injuries or congenital blindness, TN…

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder that causes normal red blood cells to form into an irregular shape, called sickled-cells. The sickle cell gene causes the body to produce abnormal hemoglobin. After a while, the hemoglobin will then cluster together anywhere in the body causing the blockage of blood flow through the blood vessels. This blockage deprives the tissues and blood of oxygen which can lead to many difficulties and problems. SCD becomes life-threatening when the damaged red…