http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 09:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/14/recovering-from-a-stroke-keep-on-going-and-eventually-you-will-regain-another-bit-of-you/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/14/recovering-from-a-stroke-keep-on-going-and-eventually-you-will-regain-another-bit-of-you/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:46:55 +0000 Victoria Hamer http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32502 Strokes can be different. Mine was the bump onto the floor, curled-up banana, non-speaking, non-walking, non-thinking, non-writing sort. Mine was, in TV scheduling terms, was at the graveyard time, early (6.30am) on a Sunday morning, when the outcome is statistically supposedly very dodgy as no stroke consultants are necessarily on duty at the hospital and a skeleton staff is on duty.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/14/recovering-from-a-stroke-keep-on-going-and-eventually-you-will-regain-another-bit-of-you/feed/ 18 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/04/the-day-that-stroke-changed-my-live-at-21/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/04/the-day-that-stroke-changed-my-live-at-21/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:32:46 +0000 Rebecca Beaumont http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=30454 Around 150,000 people a year in the UK suffer a stroke, a third of these people are under the age of 65, and around 1,000 people are under the age of 30. In October 2011, I unexpectedly became one of the statistics.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/04/the-day-that-stroke-changed-my-live-at-21/feed/ 5 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/women-in-science-problems-are-the-root-of-invention/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/women-in-science-problems-are-the-root-of-invention/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:00:36 +0000 Ruth Amos http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26188 In the UK alone more than a thousand people die from falls on the stairs each year, and falls in older people cost the NHS over £1 billion per year.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/women-in-science-problems-are-the-root-of-invention/feed/ 20