Must-know topics include: ✓ What is a stroke? ✓ How strokes affect the brain ✓ Medical problems that raise stroke risk ✓ SPECIAL SECTION: Lifestyle changes to help prevent strokes ✓ Diagnosing a stroke ✓ Treating ischemic strokes ✓ Treating hemorrhagic strokes

Dear Reader,

A stroke can strike suddenly, robbing you of movement, speech, or even independence. But here's the good news: most strokes are preventable. And taking the right steps now can dramatically lower your risk.

Now Harvard Medical School doctors share the biggest advances in their Special Health Report, Stroke: Strategies to prevent, treat, and recover from stroke. In this report, you'll learn specific, evidence-based ways to protect yourself.

You'll discover which daily habits make the greatest difference, how to manage key risk factors like blood pressure and cholesterol, and what new treatments can speed recovery and improve long-term outcomes.

With Harvard's expert guidance, you can take control of your health and reduce your risk of stroke—one smart step at a time. For example...

You’ll be introduced to a diet shown to lower a woman’s risk of stroke by 27%. You’ll find how many men can cut their risk of a hemorrhagic stroke in half. You’ll learn about a nondrug alternative to blood thinners...a new medication for high cholesterol...and the mineral you want in your diet now!

You’ll know about advances that halt a stroke’s effects!

In Stroke you’ll be briefed by experts at the forefront of today’s breakthroughs in stroke treatment and diagnosis. You’ll know about emerging procedures to limit damage and restore blood flow. You’ll be briefed on the most useful scan...a less-invasive treatment for an aneurysm...options in antiplatelet therapy...and an innovative clot retrieving device that’s becoming the standard of care.

You’ll learn about the exciting progress in stroke recovery!

Fully two-thirds of people who have had a stroke will benefit from rehabilitation treatment. You’ll explore therapies that sustain pace and progress. You’ll read about a novel “sound” technique for recovering verbal abilities...a new technology that encourages independent movement...an effective method to restore the skills of daily living...ways to ease post-stroke pain...and more.

More than ever we have the tools and ability to reduce the risk of stroke, to respond and access treatment more quickly, and to speed and enhance fuller recovery. For yourself, for your future, for those whom you love, get a copy of the Stroke Special Health Report today.

To your good health,

Timothy Cole
Editorial Director, Harvard Health Publishing