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The Acute Stroke Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will provide free screenings and counseling to identify men and women at risk for stroke on Tuesday, May 9, in the Women’s Resource Center at Jefferson Hospital’s Gibbon Building S. 10 th Street between Chestnut and Sansom streets, Philadelphia.

The screenings will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Jefferson stroke center staff will check for signs of carotid artery disease and atrial fibrillation and provide education on stroke awareness.

This free health program was designed to alert the public to the dangers of stroke, also known as a “brain attack.” The term "brain attack" is sometimes used to convey the seriousness and urgency of a stroke to the public. Most strokes and heart attacks are caused by blood clots that form or lodge at a site of atherosclerosis. It’s important that patients recognize the warning signs of a stroke, including a numbness on one side of the body and a loss of vision, and to treat stroke as a medical emergency.

If any of these symptoms occur, the patient must get to a doctor or hospital emergency department quickly for treatment, usually within three hours for the newest drug therapies to be effective.

For more information, call 1-800-JEFF-NOW.