National Stroke Awareness Month is observed in the United States annually during the month of May. National Stroke Awareness Month was created to promote...
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June) National Stroke Awareness Month South Asian Heritage Month (Ontario, Canada) Zombie Awareness Month African-American Music Appreciation Month ALS...
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Association spearheaded the efforts to have May declared "National Stroke Awareness Month", which was accomplished when President George H. W. Bush signed...
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This is a partial list of awareness ribbons. The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have...
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stroke patient groups in Europe”. The Stroke Association supports Stroke Awareness Month every May. The Stroke Association has a number of flagship annual...
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Stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to...
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October (redirect from October (month))
Awareness Month Eczema Awareness Month National Dental Hygiene Month National Healthy Lung Month National Infertility Awareness Month Liver Awareness...
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The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, or NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), is a tool used by healthcare providers to objectively quantify the impairment...
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symbol of breast cancer awareness, and in many countries, the month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Some national breast cancer organizations...
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venoms, as they cannot usually cross the blood–brain barrier Brainstem stroke Diseases of the circulatory system Medication overdose[examples needed]...
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Bike to Work month – February Pride Month - February Endometriosis Awareness Month – March NZ Music Month – May Sexual Assault Awareness Month - May Migraine...
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to be "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month". In 2006 the U.S. first recognized "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention...
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American Heart Association (redirect from American Stroke Association)
This 2023 Spanish-language campaign works to raise awareness among Hispanic Americans about stroke symptoms. The acronym stands for: Rostro caído (face...
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U+FE0F ️ VARIATION SELECTOR-16, U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER, U+26A7 ⚧ MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN, U+FE0F ️ VARIATION SELECTOR-16. In addition to...
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to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contain a Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention...
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damage to one hemisphere of the brain (e.g. after a stroke), a deficit in attention and awareness towards the side of space opposite brain damage (contralesional...
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Consciousness (redirect from Tongue awareness)
experience, feeling, or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, metacognition, or self-awareness, either continuously changing or not. The...
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Expressive aphasia (category Complications of stroke)
which they regain a great deal of language function. In the months following injury or stroke, most patients receive traditional treatment for a few hours...
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brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in the...
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Hydrocephalus (section Awareness campaign)
name, and "water baby syndrome". September was designated National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month in July 2009 by the U.S. Congress in H.Res. 373. The resolution...
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moments of lucidity as well as lunacy." After Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1946, Shemp replaced him in the act. The Shemp era marked a period...
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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories is a 2023 posthumous book containing a collection of rediscovered short stories written by Terry Pratchett for the...
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some two-and-a-half months after the beating. Beatings of 100 strokes for masturbation, 400 for pride, and one of 800 strokes for some undisclosed "fall"...
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editor-in-chief of French Elle magazine, suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings, but physically paralyzed...
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that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative...
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support of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who became a national spokesperson for AIDS awareness after being infected with AIDS through a blood transfusion...
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Society; the Canadian Mental Health Association; the Women's Heart and Stroke Association; and WaterCan. As part of her work with WaterCan, Grégoire travelled...
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characterized by "difficulties in phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal processing speed". Phonological awareness enables one to identify, discriminate...
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identified with the onset of a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA). It is not uncommon for a person to first become aware of AF from a routine physical...
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