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Practicing evidence based medicine means that you initiate statin treatment for the patients with cardiovascular diseases or TIA/Stroke if the level of the total cholesterol is >3.5 mmol/L. [...]

The US Department of Health and Human Services is palnning to prevent 1 millioon heart attacks and strokes by 2017. The focus of the new startegy is on the ( ABCS) or the aspirin, blood pressure, [...]

Two occupational therapists from University of British Columbia in Vancouver/Canada have performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials related to the subject of strength training for [...]

A team of Physicians from Mashhad university of Medical Science in Iran and from Monash University in Melbourne in Australia has published in January issue of Stroke the first epidemiological [...]

From Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Poland, two authors were aiming to assess the incidence and circumstances of falls among stroke patients in a rehabilitation ward, the frequency of [...]

There are many centers worldwide practicing Chinese medicine for different diseases. It makes the stroke patient wonders whether this type of medicine is useful for functional recovery post [...]

This is a well written book from Oxford University Press which was published in 2005 in its first edition. In their preface the authors mentioned that the book is written for people who look [...]

Stroke care teams all over the world were looking with interest to the results of Clots Trial 1. It has been reported in medical literature that graduated compression stockings GCS might help in [...]

In the hyperacute stage of the cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular ultrasound can be used to determine the vascular pathology, but the significance of very early findings on ultrasound is [...]

On 19th of June 2009, hundreds of doctors and allied health professionals were gathering in River Front in Newport City in Wales for the 8th Welsh Stroke Conference. Strokeupdate was at the [...]