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Stroke Symptoms
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Strokes Don't Discriminate
Since 1988, the incidence of stroke for middle-aged women has ..... the risk factors and signs of stroke . Women don't realize they ..... all place a woman at risk for stroke . But diabetes, which disproportionately ..... doctor about ways to reduce your stroke risk . Women have different symptoms
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Trim Your Healthcare Costs with These Steps
t give up going to the ER for allergic reactions, bone fractures, deep cuts or other injuries, heart attack and stroke symptoms , and anything else that seems life-threatening. Ways to save: In noncritical situations where you can't wait
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One Stroke at a Time
doing gap. 5. Don't scare yourself. In business, Pfeffer and Sutton report, managers who try to lead through fear cause paralysis more often than action. This is just as true when we're managing our own lives. Think of an area where you're trying
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Book Excerpt: Super Brain by Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD
be miserable or happy. Consider stroke victims. Medical science has made ..... allowing victims to recover from paralysis , the most common effect of a stroke . As with the discouraged children, with stroke patients everything seems to depend
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Dr. Oz's 28-Day Plan to Renew Your Body, Mind and Soul
to bedtime could decrease your risk of stroke by 76 percent. One possible explanation ..... percent drop in your risk of dying from stroke . Breast cancer The American Institute ..... driving in 2008, I suffered a cerebral stroke and my car crashed into a wall. A woman ..... after, and I eventually recovered from paralysis . I call that woman my angel. Today
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Pack of Two
water. But as much as I longed to imitate Caroline, whose stroke had the precision of a metronome, I hadn't realized that ..... froze at a precarious 60-degree angle, held there more by paralysis than by any sense of balance. Tom was belly-laughing from ..... couple of miles apart, and I could recognize Caroline's stroke from a hundred yards away—I'd be there waiting for
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Astonished by Love
diagnose the problem," which was reassuring. There was talk of airlifting me back to New York but, concerned that the paralysis would spread to my lungs and they would not be able to intubate me midair, an ambulance was deemed preferable. Will's cousin ..... system attacks the myelin sheath around its own spinal cord. It was unrelated to the cancer, a second fluke, a brilliant stroke of unluck. I was assigned the top myelitis specialist in the city, Dr. Apatoff, a wiry man in a bow tie with a hyperintelligent
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How Getting Sick Helped My Marriage
diagnose the problem," which was reassuring. There was talk of airlifting me back to New York but, concerned that the paralysis would spread to my lungs and they would not be able to intubate me midair, an ambulance was deemed preferable. Will's cousin ..... system attacks the myelin sheath around its own spinal cord. It was unrelated to the cancer, a second fluke, a brilliant stroke of unluck. I was assigned the top myelitis specialist in the city, Dr. Apatoff, a wiry man in a bow tie with a hyperintelligent
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Carson McCullers: A Literary Life
with poor health, including several strokes, blindness and paralysis . Yet she never considers herself an invalid. Much like the ..... McCullers manages to make it fuller than most until she dies of a stroke at age 50. Through it all, she never stops doing the thing ..... surgeries and long hospital stays, Carson suffers a final stroke on August 15 that leaves her comatose for 47 days. She dies
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Jump-Start Your Dream: How to Let Yourself Get What You Want
winning film. It wasn't newfound discipline that had led to my turnaround. Nor was it a burst of creativity or a stroke of luck. What changed everything was my willingness to feel how hopeless I'd been. When I was finally ready to reclaim ..... gold. It was Annette's unwillingness to come face-to-face with this humiliation that had led to her professional paralysis . All she needed to do was stay present to the feeling, without fighting it or trying to figure it out. In about two
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