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Resources

Medline Plus www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stroke.html

A service of the US National Library of Medicine. Contains information on a wide variety of health topics, including stroke and heart attack.


American Heart Association www.heart.org

Provides information on how to respond when symptoms of a heart attack develop.


Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org/index.asp

The leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. The association has a special web page further describing the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's disease at www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_10_signs_of_alzheimers.asp.


National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke www.ninds.nih.gov

A division of the National Institutes of Health. The mission of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is to reduce the burden of neurological disease - a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.