Stroke

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently received a gag gift of protective headgear after she suffered a concussion and blood clot near her brain after a fall. While Clinton can now make light of the injuries, a blood clot can be a serious health risk that can lead to death. Dr. James L. Frazier, III, a neurosurgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, talks about the dangers. What causes a blood clot to form in the brain? A blood clot or thrombus can form in the arteries that supply blood to the brain.

How some of our columnists and editors feel about the two-stroke penalty given to Tiger Woods at the Masters Saturday: Peter Schmuck, columnist: By most accounts, the ruling was correct and penalty appropriate, which is a sign that professional golf has evolved from the time when a player could have days of honorable competition wiped out by some subtle violation he wasn't even aware he committed. I'm still disgusted over the silly ruling that knocked Dustin Johnson out of the PGA Championship in 2010.

Charley Hoffman fired a 9-under 62 Monday to roll to a five-stroke victory at the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of four FedEx Cup playoff events. Hoffman missed the course record at the TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., by a stroke but matched the event's scoring record of 22-under 262. "I actually didn't know how many birdies I had today," said Hoffman, who earned $1.35 million for his second PGA Tour victory. "The ball just kept going in the hole, and the few bad shots I hit, I got away with.

He sits quietly in a wheelchair at a long-term care facility in his native Guelph, Ontario. Aldo Guidolin doesn't talk - multiple strokes have robbed him of his speech - but his brown eyes follow ice hockey games on TV and the movements of those who call on the aging defenseman. At 80, life is a struggle for Guidolin, whose brawling 17-year career included four seasons with the New York Rangers and six as a popular player and coach with the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League.

Bishop John H. Ricard, who served 13 years in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, is alert and resting comfortably after suffering a stroke Tuesday, according to the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. The 69-year-old bishop was upgraded from critical to serious condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, where he was admitted with symptoms of a stroke, according to the diocese. A CT scan confirmed the stroke. Ricard was a popular auxilliary bishop in Baltimore from 1984 until 1997, when he was named by Pope John Paul II to head the Pensacola-Tallahassee diocese.

Working late into the night at a research center at the South Pole, Renee-Nicole Douceur thought she was just tired when her vision suddenly became blurred. Sleep did nothing to improve her eyesight, and a doctor at the center at first thought she had torn a retina. But further diagnosis pointed to a stroke and the beginning of an ordeal where the closest hospital would be nine weeks and a 12-hour plane ride away. "I was very concerned for my health," Douceur said Friday. "I didn't know if I was a ticking time bomb.

The research involved laser scans, underwater video and special animation software. And it took thousands of hours of computer time to run simulations that crunched complex fluid mechanics equations. All of this scientific firepower was thrown at one question: Which freestyle swimming stroke is superior: the paddle-like motion known as "deep catch," or the propeller action called sculling? The answer: It's the deep catch, in which a swimmer's hands push water straight back toward his or her feet.

ROME - -The Great Stroke Experiment is over. By mutual decision, Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, are putting that relatively new windmill, straight-arm stroke - designed for sprinting - right back on the shelf. "It actually was [mutual]. It's funny, as often happens, he came out and said the same thing," Bowman said this morning at the world championships. "He said, 'I don't think this is working.' I said, 'You're right.' Experiment failed. Next." The Baltimore swimmer told Bowman that on Sunday night, almost immediately after his opening leg in the winning 400-meter freestyle relay.

James Castagna shot even par for two days to capture the lead at 142, one stroke ahead of Wes Lovell and Mitch Wyant in the Maryland Amateur Stroke Play at Mount Pleasant Golf Course.Wyant recorded yesterday's low round, a 3-under-par 68.Keith Janecek, the first-round leader, fell into a two-way tie for third at 144 with Kirk Lombardi.Pub Date: 7/05/98

Defending champion Charlie Narciso shot a 1-over-par, 37-3572 yesterday to take a one-stroke lead halfway through the annual Spring Publinx tournament at Mount Pleasant Golf Course.The Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation event drew 172 starters.Narciso, who offset a double bogey on the opening hole with birdies on the next two, turned at 1-over par, then bogeyed the 10th and birdied the 14th to match par for that side.Walt Grabowski, a former Publinx titlist, finished 37-3673, followed by Serge Hogg, last year's Maryland Amateur Stroke Play champion, and Douglas McIlvain at 74.The final round will be played today at Forest Park GC.Pub Date: 6/16/96

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently received a gag gift of protective headgear after she suffered a concussion and blood clot near her brain after a fall. While Clinton can now make light of the injuries, a blood clot can be a serious health risk that can lead to death. Dr. James L. Frazier, III, a neurosurgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, talks about the dangers. What causes a blood clot to form in the brain? A blood clot or thrombus can form in the arteries that supply blood to the brain.

Thousands of people streamed into Baltimore's Inner Harbor on New Year's Eve night to welcome 2013 with a bang of fireworks expected at midnight — a tradition for some and a new experience for others — as police scanned the crowds for threats. Steve and Lori Foster, along with their twin 12-year-old sons, Luke and Dylan, traveled from Newark, Del., for their first New Year's Eve in the city. "Somebody told us they have a really nice event down here, so we decided to come check it out," Steve said.

Bay Theatre Company's production of Norm Foster's "The Foursome" might well be described as a profound comedy. In this season's second show, running through Jan. 13, Bay president Barbara Dwyer Brown promises to deliver "the gift of laughter in an exploration of the wonders of the male psyche on the golf course. " Foster's works are produced more frequently than those of any other playwright in Canadian theater history, with more than 150 productions annually. The author of more than 40 plays, he finds riotous comedy in believable people dealing with life situations.

Through a stroke of good luck and perfect timing, Polly and Terry Smith became residents of Federal Hill six years ago. "We were wandering around town one day and saw the 'For Sale' sign on this house," Polly Smith remembered of the spacious, end-of-group home she now shares with her husband, Terry. "I lived in other cities before, and I have always loved city life. " Just as the couple thought there was no way they could afford the three-story brick home, they were approached by an interested party prepared to buy their Dulaney Valley Colonial home on Loch Raven Reservoir should they ever wish to sell.

Jordan McKelvin first fell in love with golf at age 2. She received a plastic set of golf clubs as a gift from her great-aunt, and she rarely put them down. By the time she turned 5, visits to the driving range with her dad became commonplace. She isn't playing with toy clubs any more. In just her second year of high school competition, McKelvin's skill has made the Westminster sophomore one of the state's best golfers. And her work in school and the community has achieved equally high marks.

Women who enter menopause before their 46th birthday are twice as likely to suffer a stroke or coronary heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The risk from early menopause is true no matter the ethnic or racial background of a woman, the study found. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of American women. The results are the same for women who enter menopause naturally as those who have hysterectomies or ovary removal, said Dhananjay Vaidya, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and leader of the study published.

DR. MARIAN LAMONTE, director of the University of Maryland Medical Center's new Brain Attack Team, knows the frustration of living between the cutting edge of medical knowledge and the need to spread the word.The calls come in from hospitals in the area, describing a person who has come in with stroke symptoms and asking whether the team can help. Too often it turns out that the call comes after those crucial hours when new therapies can make a huge difference in a patient's ability to recover -- leaving Dr. LaMonte to wonder how much better that person's quality of life would have been had help come sooner.

Slow greens and a half-hour rain delay hindered the participants in yesterday's final round of the Maryland Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Mount Pleasant Golf Course, but Buddy Peoples was able to shoot a 4-under-par 67 to win the title and set a tournament record .Peoples (Crofton Country Club), who won the title in 1992, finished with a three-day total of 210 -- the first below-par combined score in the history of the tournament.What is shocking is that he accomplished that score under some tough conditions.

Maryterese Streett, Bel Air's unofficial matriarch and historian and among its best known residents, died Saturday night at a hospice near Bel Air. She would have been 82 on Sept. 4. Owners of Boyd & Fulford Drugs on Main Street, Mrs. Streett and her husband, M. Eugene Streett, became known to generations of Bel Air resident's as the town's First Couple. Under their ownership, Boyd and Fulford, which opened in 1892 and is the town's oldest business, became a place to go for everything from romantic and medical advice to news about all the comings and goings in the Harford County seat, not to mention who was doing what in local politics.

The research involved laser scans, underwater video and special animation software. And it took thousands of hours of computer time to run simulations that crunched complex fluid mechanics equations. All of this scientific firepower was thrown at one question: Which freestyle swimming stroke is superior: the paddle-like motion known as "deep catch," or the propeller action called sculling? The answer: It's the deep catch, in which a swimmer's hands push water straight back toward his or her feet.