If you like video games and testing your smarts, you will not want to miss the Stroke of Genius Challenge. For a mere $10, which supports research and education at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, one of four institutes of the UC College of Medicine and UC Health, you…
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The power of music, with all of its beauty and adjunct neurological benefits, swept through the lobby of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) on Wednesday as the hospital celebrated a new partnership with Cincinnati Opera. Among those enjoying the occasion – which included arias and Broadway tunes from four gifted young vocalists —…
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It’s OK if you don’t know where to go. Really, it is. It’s OK if you can’t recall what they told you about your incision when you were leaving the hospital. And it’s OK if you don’t really remember whether you were supposed to call for a follow-up appointment or the doctor’s office was going…
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The new UC Health Telestroke Network has already paid dividends for patients at Dearborn County Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Ind. More than half a dozen patients at the hospital have been examined, via a telestroke robot, by members of the UC Stroke Team since the system was implemented April 30. The robots enable audio-video communications in…
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She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered...
In November of 2004, Zettie Williams confronted what neurologists consider one of the most feared consequences of stroke. When a therapist showed her a photograph of her son, she knew she was looking at her son, but she couldn’t say...
Leah is a young woman who sings, dances, and plays the guitar. She is also a survivor of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). It is rare for someone in her mid-teens to have had an AVM, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels...
The only visible sign of Amber Gray’s ordeal is the long slender scar that runs along her forearm. It is the area where a surgeon carefully removed her radial artery, which was needed to bypass a damaged artery in her...
As a firefighter who attends regular EMS drills, Dick Koeniger was well versed in the signs and symptoms of stroke. While driving home with a friend one evening last June, he suddenly noticed that his peripheral vision was slightly impaired....