TRAFFIC ANCHOR. MAY IS STROKE AWARENESS MONTH. STROKE IS STILL RANKED AS THE NUMBER FIVE CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE US. SO TODAY LET’S TALK ABOUT THE SIGNS OF STROKE TO LOOK OUT FOR. HOW TO LOWER ...

This’ll get your blood pumping. Plastic — the same stuff choking the oceans and your takeout containers — may be increasing your chance of having a stroke. In a shocking twist worthy of sci ...

Call 911 immediately and use the FAST test to check symptoms Note when symptoms begin; timing is key for effective stroke treatment Don’t let them sleep, eat or drive; wait for first responders ...

In the United States, stroke rates increased by about 64% between 1993 and 2015, and one nationwide study found that rates of hemorrhagic stroke—the second-most common type of stroke—among ...

And then the question that haunts every family in the aftermath of a stroke — were there warning signs we missed? For decades, we’ve been trained to recognize the immediate signs of stroke ...

MURRAY — Ann Itchon says she will never forget the sound of her husband falling in the bathroom the night he suffered a stroke. On Jan. 23, 2024, Ted Itchon woke up around 2 a.m. to use the ...

Utah hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines’ Target: Stroke program scored the highest percentage of patients who received intravenous thrombolytics within ...

Women with a higher McCance Brain Care Score (BCS)—a score that measures physical, lifestyle, and social-emotional factors—have a lower risk of experiencing a stroke or other cerebrovascular ...

A stroke in 2013 had immobilized much the left side of his body. He’d lost the job he loved running a marina and the housing that came with it. But Nute’s life changed significantly over the ...

“They had a weird look on their faces of just shock, cause they’re like, ‘She’s having symptoms of a stroke. Like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy,’” she said. Once Fulk got to the ...