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New NIH study sheds light on mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’: Victims’ symptoms are ‘real’ and ‘quite profound’ – but injuries don’t show up on MRI much like a ‘mini stroke,’ one Pentagon medical consultant tells DailyMail.com

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A new government study tracking over 80 self-reported victims of ‘Havana Syndrome’ found no signs of brain injury — despite also identifying ‘real symptoms’ of the mystery ailment that researchers called ‘quite profound’ and ‘disabling.’

Persistent dizziness and balance issues were among those real symptoms for 28 percent of the embassy officials and other patients studied, according to the report.

But one Georgetown neurologist, who conducted early research into the syndrome for the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command, tells DailyMail.com their

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Heavy Metal Rocker Reveals He Suffered A Stroke, Shares Update With Fans

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Heavy metal rocker Nicko McBrain finally shared an update with Iron Maiden fans who noticed he didn’t seem well earlier this year, revealing he suffered a stroke in January.

In a video shared on YouTube, the 71-year-old drummer said that the stroke has left him partially paralyzed, but he is taking it one day at a time, and talked about getting better and stronger “by the grace of God.”

“I wasn’t well earlier this year, as some of you have

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I survived a stroke at 20 – here’s the subtle symptom that I ignored

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When Esmae Hodgetts was suddenly struck down by a banging headache, the 20-year-old thought nothing of it.

Nor did she consider anything sinister was to blame for the minor twinge felt in her shoulder and neck the week before.

So, obviously, Esmae, who prided herself on being fit and healthy, was disturbed to discover the true cause of her agony — a stroke which has turned the dental nurse’s life upside down.

Although considered an affliction unique to the older

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Adelaide girl, 11, suffered a stroke while at primary school causing mum to run to hospital

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An 11-year-old girl is in a wheelchair and unable to recognise her own mother after she suffered a stroke while laughing with her friends at primary school.

Lily Biggs, now 15, was lining up with friends and laughing like any other child at her primary school in Adelaide in 2019.

But things took a dark turn when she collapsed and was rushed to hospital.

Her mum, Melissa, received a frantic phone call from Lily’s school and arrived at the hospital,

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MSU gunman Anthony McRae was a ‘mama’s boy’ who turned ‘evil’ after his mother died of a stroke

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The father of MSU killer Anthony McRae says he turned ‘evil and bitter’ after his mother died from a stroke in 2020 and had quit his warehouse job to stay at home and play video games. 

McRae, 43, killed himself last night after senselessly murdering three students on the MSU campus. He injured another five. 

His father Michael, 66, described him today as a ‘mama’s boy’ who turned ‘evil and mean’ after his mother Linda died suddenly three years ago.

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Do Voters Care About John Fetterman’s Stroke?

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Every second of every day, oxygen-rich blood is coursing through your brain. Your heart pumps it up through your chest and neck, along tinier and tinier arterial tubes, twisting and turning among the grooves and lobes of gray matter until it reaches the brain cells it’s meant to nourish. But this journey can be interrupted. An artery can get clogged—often by a free-floating, gelatinous clot—which halts the flow of blood. The clog will starve your brain’s cells of oxygen.

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Why taking an aspirin at bedtime (not first thing in the morning) can halve your risk of a stroke 

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Our body clock affects everything from when we feel hungry to our sexual compatibility. 

In the first part of our serialisation of his new book, in yesterday’s Daily Mail, one of Britain’s leading experts on our circadian rhythms explained how being aware of these patterns can revolutionise our health. Today, he tells of another of its life-changing powers…

Awareness that we have a body clock — or circadian rhythm – dates from 1729 when the French astronomer Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de

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