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Moderate drinking linked to lower risk of heart attack, death in patients
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): According to a new study, drinking up to 105 grams of alcohol per week - equivalent to 13 UK units of alcohol, less than six pints of medium-strength beer or just over a bottle of wine - may be associated with a decreased risk of heart attack, stroke, angina o
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Shoaib Ibrahim's father in ICU after suffering brain stroke, actor gives h
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 27 (ANI): Actor Shoaib Ibrahim's father has suffered a brain stroke recently.
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Stroke caused 699,000 deaths in India in 2019
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New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The contribution of non-communicable neurological disorders and neurological injuries to the total disease burden has more than doubled between 1990 and 2019, finds the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative in a paper published in The Lancet Global Hea
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Aspirin can reduce risk of heart attacks, strokes in patients with pneumon
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 12 (ANI): According to a new study, aspirin can reduce the risk of serious cardiovascular events such as ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction (MI - heart attack) in patients with pneumonia.
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Vocal music boosts the recovery of language functions after stroke: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Helinski [Finland], July 10 (ANI): Research conducted at the University of Helsinki and the Turku University Hospital Neuro centre has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the pheno
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Recovery of language functions after stroke can be boosted by vocal music
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke, even though the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far remained unknown.
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Heart attack, stroke can be reduced by testosterone therapy: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): According to the findings of new research, supplementing testosterone significantly reduces heart attacks and strokes in men with unnaturally low levels of the hormone.
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Study suggests vocal music boosts recovery of language functions after str
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): A new study has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far remained unknown.
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Doctors call for front-of-pack labelling on packaged foods to reduce heart
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Leading doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh and Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar have called for mandatory front-of-package labels on packaged food products to stem the rising burden of cardiovascular disease an
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Study suggests physical activity may counter serious health harms of poor
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): A new study has found that those who had both the poorest sleep quality and who exercised the least were most at risk of death from heart disease, stroke, and cancer, prompting the researchers to suggest a likely synergy between the two activities.
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Study finds high physical activity levels may counter serious health harms
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): A new study has found that those who had both the poorest sleep quality and who exercised the least were most at risk of death from heart disease, stroke, and cancer, prompting the researchers to suggest a likely synergy between the two activities.
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Study finds muscle's smallest building blocks start disappearing in stroke
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], June 26 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggests that after suffering a stroke, people often are unable to use the arm on their affected side and sometimes end up holding it close to their body, with the elbow flexed.
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