Mike Dulakis was progressing through his normal workout Feb. 3 at Taylorville’s Lock Up Gym, lifting weights from a seated position, when everything changed. The 39-year-old guard for the Taylorville Correctional Facility was “training to failure,” a common weight-lifting strategy.…
After a long day of work last March, Virginia native Barbara Arenz decided to relax by watching one of her favorite shows—Grey’s Anatomy. It showed a patient undergoing a unique treatment, where a special drug was given to make the…
Brianne Buckmaster didn’t know what was happening to her when she was rushed to Memorial Medical Center in the early morning hours of a January winter. She knew something was wrong when she tried to get out of bed and…
Whether or not you’re likely to have a stroke depends on many risk factors—some you can control and others you can’t. Stroke is the third-leading cause of death for women and the fourth for men, says Amanda Conn, coordinator of…
While it’s hugely prevalent, with one in three seniors ultimately dying with the disease, most people don’t know much about Alzheimer’s and dementia. We’ve already learned from Dr. Therese Meyer-Cox, a neuropsychologist with Memorial Medical Center’s Neurosciences department, about what…
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5 million Americans—two-thirds of them women—are living with Alzheimer’s today. One in three senior citizens dies with Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia. The organization estimates that, by 2050, the number of…
Tori Seward, 33, knows from experience that a stroke can happen to anyone at any age at any time. Last June, the hairdresser with the infectious smile suffered a vertebral artery dissection in her neck, which led to a brain…
Strokes are the fourth-leading cause of death and the leading cause of serious disability in the United States. Even so, the majority of people know very little about these debilitating events—and fewer realize they might just be at risk. “Half…
Some 6 million people in the United States have unruptured brain aneurysms, according to The Brain Aneurysm Foundation. That’s about one in 50 people. And every 18 minutes, one of those aneurysms ruptures. An aneurysm happens when an artery that…
Roughly one in five Americans struggle with tinnitus – typically described as a constant or intermittent ringing sound that people hear in one or both ears. It’s a problem that strikes our nation’s veterans particularly hard, according to the American…