A new national stroke strategy to be announced today by the health secretary, Alan Johnson, could save nearly 7,000 lives a year and prevent many more people from becoming permanently disabled, the government will claim. Stroke - a blood clot or bleeding in the brain - is the cause of 50,000 deaths a year and many more people are disabled by it. It is a bigger killer of women than breast cancer. Yet it has been the poor relation of some other high-profile diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, when it comes to prevention and treatment.
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