At a Parliamentary debate held on Tuesday 2 July, MPs urged the government to issue a national review into neuro-rehab resources throughout the UK.  The debate was led by Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain Injury. According to the National Clinical Audit carried out by the group, 94 per cent of people who received neuro-rehab were able to live independent lives, yet only 40 per cent of those assessed at a major trauma unit as needing neuro-rehab had access to it, with an estimated shortage of 330 beds across England and Wales.

In the first community-based study of its kind, researchers from The Ohio State University and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network found that 81 per cent of women who have been abused at the hands of their partners have suffered a head injury and 83 per cent have been strangled. Trauma such as repeated blows to the head and strangulation have lasting effects and should be recognised by professionals, from advocates and health care providers, to law enforcement, authors of the study say.

Older women with more body fat around the middle (apple-shaped), are up to three times more likely to suffer from a stroke than those with fat around the thighs (pear-shaped), research finds. A study published in the European Heart Journal on 30 June 2019, has found that storing a greater proportion of body fat in the legs was linked to a significantly decreased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in postmenopausal women - even if they are of a normal weight. Research carried out by New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied 2,683 postmenopausal women, aged 59-70 years-old, all with a normal body mass index (18.5 to less than 25 kg/m2).