The executive board of the National Aphasia Association has drawn up a Bill of Rights designed to minimize the isolation and frustration commonly experienced by people with the condition.
Aphasia impairs a patient’s ability to speak, read, write or understand others, but does not affect intelligence. According to the National Aphasia Association, it affects anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of stroke survivors and stroke is the most common cause.
Strokes are ...
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In an article on problems with the Yaz line of contraceptives for BNET online magazine, Jim Edwards writes that Yaz manufacturer Bayer seems to have a troubling perspective on the very concept of risk.
As Edwards writes, Yaz is the focus of concerns that it causes more blood clots in users than older safer pills.
A number of studies show that pills containing the ...
continue reading...A report on NBC 10 out of Massachusetts mentions a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine dealing with risks of birth control pills.
Researchers found that otherwise young, healthy women doubled their risk of heart attack and stroke if they use oral contraceptives that contain low-dose estrogen and progestin, such as the compound drospirenone.
Pregnancy itself is a risk factor for the blood clots that cause strokes. But a ...
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A recent report on CBS’s 60 Minutes questions whether antidepressants are any more effective than placebos.
The report features an interview with Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Placebo Studies Program at Harvard Medical School, who says clinical trials simply don’t show a clinically significant advantage to antidepressants over dummy sugar pills.
“People get better when they take the drug,” Kirsch acknowledges. “But it’s not the chemical ingredients of the pills that ...
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Fox News gives an account of a man who survived a two-and-a-half-foot blood clot stretching from his knee to his abdomen.
The report says that Gerald Cunha, 59, had swelling in his legs and pain that he attributed to sciatica. But doctors found he was suffering from deep vein thrombosis, which occurs when a clot forms in one of the body’s deep veins. According to the report, Cunha had “many classic ...
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A stroke always occurs because of an interruption of blood flow to the brain. But a number of different underlying factors add to the risk of stroke, including recent surgery, long periods of immobility, a family history of blood clots, pregnancy and use of birth control pills.
Though most oral contraceptives can increase the risk of the blood clots that frequently cause a stroke, a number of studies indicate those containing ...
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