The Cincinnati Post
Dateline: July 5th 2005

Web Site Warns of 'Brain Attacks'

Health care officials increasingly are using the term "brain attack" to describe what we've called "stroke" for decades.

www.NetWellness.org,  the consumer health information Web site overseen by faculty from the University of Cincinnati, the Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University, last week adopted the term on one of its health topics pages.

"Both are very good terms," said Dr. Joseph Broderick, chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati, one of the more than 300 health experts who contributes to the site. "The term stroke has a long history," Broderick said Wednesday. "But 'brain attack' gets at the point that immediate attention is needed for something that's happening."

See http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/brainattack/strokeoverview.cfm
See http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/brainattack/bash.cfm
See http://www.netwellness.org/aboutnw/newsreleases/brainattack.cfm
See http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/brainattack/