PHE & Stroke Association Relaunch the Act FAST campaign to improve stroke outcomes

The Act FAST campaign urges everyone to take immediate action on seeing any stroke symptoms to save lives – the NHS is open. Data from the lockdown period of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic last year show that admissions to hospital for stroke fell – a 12% drop between March and April 2020. Stroke is a medical emergency and anyone experiencing symptoms should seek urgent help. Early treatment not only saves lives but results in a greater chance of a better recovery, as well as a likely reduction in permanent disability…

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We Are Undefeatable: a major new campaign to support people with long-term health conditions to be active

An inspiring new campaign – We Are Undefeatable – is being launched to support the one in four (15 million) people in England who live with one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s. By recognising the unique barriers people with health conditions face, the campaign aims to help people build physical activity into their lives, by hearing from others who have become more active through the ups and downs of living with their condition. Individuals living with a long-term health condition are twice as likely to…

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Stroke Association Launches Rebuilding Lives campaign

Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. We can help rebuild them. When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. Life changes instantly. Dominic Brand, Executive Director of External Affairs at the Stroke Association has written a blog post where he goes into more details about the thoughts behind the campaign, which we have included below: Stroke is extremely common and yet remarkably…

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Medical charities collaborate to ensure research results are shared

23 members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) are working in collaboration to develop and launch a joint publication platform, AMRC Open Research.  By removing traditional barriers and delays to publication, the new platform will help the charities maximise the value of the donations they receive by making it possible for every output from the research they fund to be rapidly and openly shared. The AMRC Open Research will use services developed by F1000 and a publication process first used on F1000Research. This process has since been adopted…

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