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From Jose Vega M.D., Ph.D., for About.com

Stroke and Utilization Behavior

Tuesday May 26, 2009
Stroke symptoms can be very strange, and challenging, and they say a lot about the complexity of our brains. One of the most interesting symptoms of stroke is called ... Read More

Stroke and Alien Hand Syndrome

Thursday May 21, 2009
One of the most interesting symptoms of certain strokes is called the alien hand syndrome, which causes a person who has suffered strokes in very specific areas of both frontal ... Read More

Telemedicine for Stroke Care

Wednesday May 13, 2009
Believe it or not the US only has 4 neurologists for each 100,000 people. This is rarely a problem in most large cities, but it is a major one ... Read More

Smoking Does Kill

Saturday May 9, 2009
Saying that smoking kills seems like a trivial thing to say these days, but there are still those who doubt the well documented ill effects of cigarettes on people's health. ... Read More

To Stent or Not To Stent? The SAMMPRIS trial

Monday May 4, 2009
One of the major controversies in stroke medicine is whether or not it is safe to apply a device (stent) to re-open areries in the brain which have become closed ... Read More
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