Without treatment with rt-PA, one-third of people who have a stroke die and another third are left permanently dependent and disabled.

BBC: Brain

Child Safety Week is Sept. 19 - 25, and it's no small cause: Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children 3 to 14 years old, and 2010 is on course to be a record-breaking year for the number of children who die from heat-stroke in parked cars.

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The bereaved are much more likely to be involved in accidents, which is perhaps understandable, but also to die from heart attacks and stroke.

BBC: How emotional pain can really hurt

In a clot-caused stroke, some cells die almost immediately.

FORBES: Repairing The Brain

In a study published last year in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, African-Americans with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48% less likely to have a heart attack or stroke, or to die, than those who attended a health-education class.

WSJ: Doctor's Orders: 20 Minutes of Meditation Twice a Day

Before long, self-assembly was put aside and the talk swung to how to improve X-rays, and then to the puzzling phenomenon of soldiers in Iraq who survive a bomb blast only to die a few days later of a stroke.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

She did not die of a heart attack but of a stroke, according to the death certificate signed by her personal physician.

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Three quarters of us are going to die from either cancer, cardiovascular disease, or stroke.

NPR: Nation's Obesity Problem Puts Strain On Health Care Costs