1.   BE HAPPY AND SEE YOUR STROKE RISK FALL Facing each day with a smile may be the best medicine to prevent a stroke in your later years.

2.   A new study suggests that MRI scans may be able to identify which patients with atherosclerosis are most in need of immediate surgery to prevent strokes.

3.   Doctors are treating it much more aggressively than even a few years ago, with drugs, blood thinners to prevent strokes, catheter procedures and open-heart surgery.

4.   He said the benefits of anticoagulation therapy to prevent strokes had been shown earlier in a number of clinical trials, but the method had not been adopted widely.

5.   Interneuron Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced it has filed a new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration to sell its CerAxon for preventing certain strokes.

6.   More recently, aspirin has been shown to help prevent strokes, and researchers are studying whether it might help fight colon cancer.

7.   One doctor wanted to prevent strokes in children.

8.   Prevents cancers of the lung, stomach and breast, prevents strokes, stimulates immune functions, prevents cataracts.

9.   Researchers have long known that potassium can reduce blood pressure, and some small studies had suggested that increasing its consumption could help prevent strokes.

10.   The coil surrounds the aneurysms to help prevent stroke.