Allison Pataki shares young caregiver’s viewpoint after husband’s stroke at 30
Today, Allison Pataki published a moving New York Times blog post about her husband’s stroke at age 30. Pregnant with their first child at the time of the event, she describes continuing to work...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds: Can Stress Cause Stroke?
The year 2016 ended with hemorrhagic stroke in the mainstream news around the world. Most of you have already heard the story of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds at this point – a daughter’s...
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Young adults with acute ischemic stroke are more likely to receive IV t-PA...
I am finally able to share the results of the largest study to date evaluating treatment of young adults in the first hours after the onset of ischemic stroke! First, though, I would like to provide...
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Bill Paxton: Stroke Following Heart Surgery
Bill Paxton was one of those versatile actors who had always just been around for us. When his unexpected death at 61 was recently announced, I heard reactions such as: “Oh, I loved him in True Lies”...
View ArticleApathy around National Stroke Awareness Month is real
I have spent the past week debating whether to post publicly about an email I received from The State (South Carolina’s most widely distributed daily newspaper). Ultimately, I concluded that it was...
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Love Is: Why Luke Perry’s Death Disturbs A Generation
Have you ever had the experience of going five, ten, maybe even 20 years and not given a single thought to something, only to find that when it pops up on your radar again, it repetitively re-enters...
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Fear accompanies loss of control, in Covid-19 and in stroke
In 2012, I walked through a cemetery in Cashion, Oklahoma, eager to find the final resting places of my grandmother’s seven siblings and many other long since departed ancestors and relatives. My...
View ArticleStroke emerging as complication of Covid-19
On April 28, 2020, a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine describing blood clots in large arteries supplying the brain (known as “large-vessel strokes”) in young patients testing...
View ArticleI Am A Doctor On The Internet, and I Am Covid-19 Vaccinated
Recently, it hit me. I’m a doctor. And I’m “on the internet.” But I don’t have a YouTube channel. Well, I technically do, but the only videos I have posted are of my cat, and of my daughter doing an...
View ArticleSenator Ben Ray Lujan suffers cerebellar stroke
This morning I awakened to the news that a US Senator from New Mexico, Ben Ray Lujan, had sustained a stroke in his cerebellum last week, diagnosed after he presented to the University of New Mexico...
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