Association Quote by Linford Christie

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

— Charles W. Pickering

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story.…

— Aliko Dangote

I had a stroke in 2006. I thought: 'This is it.'

— Gareth Thomas

Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly…

— David Perlmutter

“Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called “health literacy.” It”

— Jerome Groopman

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just…

— William Foege

A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.

— Michael Greger

There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering…

— Kent Brantly

Africa can make people see things differently, and they realise the world is not as dangerous as people think.

— Charley Boorman

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within…

— Katherine Dunham

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale -…

— Uzodinma Iweala