Stroke Steals One Woman&#39;s Dreams
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Along with the potentially devastating physical damage that a stroke can cause, a little known and rare consequence can be the loss of dreaming.
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NEW YORK  - Patients who have a stroke are less likely to die within the next week if they are admitted to a hospital on a weekday rather than over the weekend, neurologists in Canada report.
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When Dr. Robert Wachter&#39;s wife underwent surgery in October to donate a kidney to a friend, her chief anxiety, he said, was &quot;the possibility that she might be killed by a medical mistake.
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NEW YORK  - Socioeconomic status may account for some, but not all, of the increased risk of stroke African Americans face, a new study shows.
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U.S. women ages 45 to 54 face more than double the risk of stroke than men the same age, researchers said on Wednesday, noting that obesity in these women may be partly to blame.
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Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to have a stroke as people who are not afflicted with the debilitating headaches, Canadian and American scientists say.
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In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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NEW YORK  - TV ads that teach the warning signs of stroke may encourage more victims to get to the hospital quickly, researchers have found.
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The nightmares didn't start until months after Alicia Flores returned home. The images were stark and disturbing: In one dream, a dying Iraqi man desperately grabbed her arm. In another, she was lost in a blinding sandstorm.
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&quot;It is a dream&quot; said Ouarda Touirat, smiling at the cameras yesterday. The first woman in the world to give birth following an ovarian transplant cradled her new-born baby and added: &quot;It is what I have always wanted.
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where people&#39;s dreams are created. A team from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, made the discovery after treating a woman who stopped dreaming after she had a stroke.
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She was overweight, physically inactive, a 23-year-old with a family history of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. &quot;Just walking up the stairs was tough,&quot; she says.
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The case of a woman in a vegetative   state who appeared to play tennis in her head highlights one of   the key frustrations of doctors who treat such patients --   trying to figure out what is going on in someone else's brain.
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Women who use hormone replacement  therapy (HRT) to relieve symptoms of the menopause are at  increased risk of stroke, according to a review of 28 HRT  trials.
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NEW YORK  - Among women with no history of major illness, those with high cholesterol levels are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke, investigators in Boston report.
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&#39;Not many years ago, we couldn&#39;t do much for people with strokes -- except try to prevent the next one.&#39; ...
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.