John, at 62, had gone from being a CEO (chief executive officer) of a Fortune 500 company to a nursing home resident in just a matter of six months. After a devastating stroke, his doctors held little hope of any significant recovery. What John had often referred to as “just a little high blood pressure” had destroyed his world.
One in 12 stroke survivors thought about suicide or that they would be better off dead, a new US survey reveals. That’s more than those with other health problems such as heart attacks or cancer, and it suggests that depression after stroke is more serious than many had realized.
Noting how Filipino heart attack or stroke victims are getting younger and younger, cardiologists and heart specialists on Tuesday urged the Senate to pass Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s version of the “sin tax” bill in order to save an estimated 75,000 lives annually.
Sex need not be forbidden for someone who has suffered a stroke.
WE USED to think that migraine is a bothersome but otherwise benign type of headache. Recent data suggest that it may not really be as harmless as it was believed to be. Two weeks ago, I joined around 20 Filipino heart specialists who attended an international congress on the treatment of hypertension and its complications [...]
