There are an estimated 750,000 people who suffer stroke every single year. Special scans have been popping up all over the place claiming to detect disease early before it becomes deadly. Health Editor Diana Penna has details on yet another kind of scan in California that claims to catch two different conditions. We are talking about stroke and Alzheimer's.
Doctors say the number of stroke victims has nearly doubled over the last twenty-five years.
The same is true of Alzheimer's and many other illnesses, but as technology advances, patients can now get a very high tech look inside their bodies. There are an estimated 750,000 people who suffer stroke every single year. And men are more likely to have a stroke than women. Now a simple test can let you know if you are at risk. Photographer Ron Price took the test, it's an advanced form of an MRI, and it is pretty simple.