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The Government has confirmed its third major mental health facility upgrade since the Budget, this time at Palmerston North Hospital.
While still in his thirties, dad-of-three and former Flava Breakfast host Sela Alo, was diagnosed with a heart condition and now he’s encouraging people to get a free pulse check as part of the Heart Foundation’s atrial fibrillation awareness week.
After only one hour of training with a brain computer interface (BCI), there were significant changes in people’s brains suggesting that BCIs could be personalised for treating stroke and other brain disorders. That’s according to new research in The Journal of Physiology published today.
In New Zealand cardiovascular/heart disease including stroke and blood vessel disease is still the leading cause of death, accounting for 30% of deaths annually.
Last month, Stratford woman, Gay Burnnand arrived in an ambulance at Taranaki Base Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) following a stroke and received life-saving treatment in record breaking time.
This year’s World Stroke Day campaign, #DontBeTheOne, encourages everyone, no matter what their age, to assess their individual risk of stroke using the free Stroke Riskometer mobile app developed by Professor Valery Feigin at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Around 1,000 radiologists and radiation oncologists from around Australia, New Zealand and beyond will gather in Auckland this week for The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists’ (RANZCR) 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting.
More people would take their heart medications if their pills were combined into a single ‘polypill’, potentially saving hundreds more New Zealanders from heart attacks and strokes.
Heart disease is a major killer for people with mental illness and one Wellington doctor is trying to turn this around.
A world-first personalised benefit-harm calculator developed in Aotearoa New Zealand will help people decide, with their doctors, if they should take a daily aspirin as a preventative against heart disease and stroke.
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