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After Zagreb Working Conference, SAFE has 32 member organisations
The Working Conference and General Assembly of the Stroke Alliance for Europe (SAFE) took place at the Westin Hotel, Zagreb from 6-8th December, 2017. This was the most successful SAFE annual conference to date, with around one hundred delegates from more than 30...

Medics: There is an expected increase of 34% in number of strokes
Please read below an excerpt from an article published in Croatian online portal www.24sata.hr about the SAFE Working Conference 2017. Although the number of deaths caused by stroke is in decline, there are more people who survive an acute stroke, but there are also...

For the first time: Burden of Stroke across Europe- Infographics country by country
With grateful thanks for its generosity to our industry partner Bayer, we are now presenting you with infographics based on the data from the Burden of Stroke Report, in SAFE branding, showing data country by country. Please find your country infographic below these...

Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use of medical practices
All countries face the challenge of funding ever-new and expensive treatments, with increasing pressure on budgets, harmful deficit spending, and ever-higher health insurance premiums. One solution to these concerns is to scale back on outdated or low-value...

WAKE UP Clinical Trial Update
WAKE-UP is a European multicentre investigator-initiated randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of MRI based thrombolysis in acute stroke patients with unknown time of symptom onset, e.g. due to recognition of stroke symptoms on awakening. Stroke is a...