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Health Encyclopedia: Stroke Secondary To Syphilis
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Antibiotics are used in high doses to treat the syphilis infection. Pain killers may be needed to control severe headaches.
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Expert & Community Posts
Treatment Helpful in Reducing Risk of Depression After Stroke
By Teri Robert , Health Expert...issue of JAMA reports that in the year following a stroke, patients who received the medication... Read more »
Video: Migraine and Stroke Risk
By Teri Robert , Health Expert...that came out showing that Migraine can increase stroke risk caused strress and concern for many... Read more »
Depression Not Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke
By Teri Robert , Health Expert...who also experience depression and the increased stroke risk that Migraine presents, I thought... Read more »
Black History Month promotes stroke awareness among African Americans
By Deanne Stein , Health Expert...the greatest threats to African Americans, which is stroke. I spoke to a civic group about this... Read more »
Gene Linked To Migraine and Increased Stroke Risk
By Teri Robert , Health Expert...carry the MTHFR 677TT genotype, the risk of ischemic stroke is substantially increased. This... Read more »
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Mid-Life Stroke More Common in Women than Men
Many Migraineurs have become aware that having Migraine disease increases our risk of stroke. In women with Migraine, there is an average of 2.16 times greater risk of stroke. An increase in... Read more »Treatment Helpful in Reducing Risk of Depression After Stroke
As if the "normal" recover from a stroke weren't difficult enough, stroke victims show an increased risk of developing depression. In the U.S., more than 700,000 people experience stroke annually.... Read more »More Research Links Migraine With Aura and Stroke in Women
In the last few years, studies have been released about Migraine and stroke risk, and Migraine and cardiovascular disease in both women and men. To all of this information, we can now add information... Read more »Depression Not Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke
Studies have shown that stroke often leads to depression, but the evidence from those studies has been mixed as to whether depression could lead to stroke. Now, according to a study published in... Read more »
Medications
...Clopidogrel is used to prevent heart attacks and strokes in persons with heart disease... Read more »
...diabetes. It is also used to lower the risk of strokes in patients with high blood pressure... Read more »
...widen. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks and kidney problems.... Read more »
...diabetes may also lessen your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Chlorpropamide belongs to the... Read more »
...diabetes may also lessen your risk of a heart attack or stroke. How To Use Take this medication... Read more »
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Acupuncture for Strokes
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Gene Increases Stroke Risk
April 02, 2007(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- For some people, its their genes, not clogged arteries, increasing their risk of having a stroke. Researchers followed 9,178... Read summary »
Protecting Brains After Stroke
May 05, 2008MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Currently, there is only one FDA... Read summary »
Ladies, Keep an Eye on That Cholesterol!
February 21, 2007By Betsy Lievense, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Now, even the fittest of females have a good reason to cut down... Read summary »
New Stroke Treatment Has Immediate Effects
March 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) A new treatment for stroke may buy patients time. Researchers from Israel have found patients treated with the drug minocycline... Read summary »
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