According the Turkish Statistical Organisation, one person dies every 14 minutes because of stroke in Turkey and 40.000 people died of stroke in 2017. As much as these data seem horrifying, there is a hope for change. Since recently, there is a stroke support...

Research project led by the UKE: Clinical Trial in eight European countries has started When stroke is treated by thrombectomy, blood clots are removed from the arteries of the brain with the help of a catheter in order to rebuild the blood circulation in the damaged...

Written by Anita Wiseman │ First appeared on WSO blog After sixty-two years of officially categorizing stroke as a Disease of the Circulatory System, the newly published WHO ICD 11, has correctly classified stroke as a Disease of the Nervous System ICD 11 is a...

On 28th June 2018 SAFE held its third and final Regional Conference of 2018. This conference was attended by delegates from 18 stroke support organisations. Apart from an interactive session about the SSOFT project, Angels Initiative, Stroke Action Plan for Europe and...

On 21st June 2018 SAFE held its second Regional Conference of 2018. This conference was attended by more than 20 delegates from UK, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Once again, the SSOFT project was presented to our delegates, in a...