Michael Brainin

Past-President of the World Stroke Organisation and Member All Life Institute, EiC Brain and Heart, Senior Professor, Danube University Krems, Austria

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@sheilambrasil I join the chorus of wellwishers! Especially Urs and his entire team!
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I kindly ask my 712 followers to leave X. I will not follow it anymore or respond to any tweets. The sexual abuse option given to Grog, the X AI assistant is the immediate reason as is the elitist policy of Elon Musk.

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Solar energy together with wind energy was in 2025 the main source of energy world-wide, according to Science Dec 2025. This is a phenomenal progress in fighting climate change.

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I have a digital subscription for the newspaper ‘die Presse’, I made monthly payments. Since a while no digital access, no response from subscription service. But have to pay a double subscription fee in order to cancel. This is a WARNING to all potential subscribers!

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NCD Alliance scores a win at the UNGA: “We stand by the Call to Lead and urge all governments to deliver with national action and accountability,“ said Katie Dain, CEO of the NCD Alliance.
The Declaration remains astep forward for global health.
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UN Draft 4

1.3 billion smokers in the world, other aims are disgracefully watered down. No mention of concrete goals, eg the reduction of ultraprocessed food or of environmental gases. This reeks of industry influence right into the authorship of the UN draft.

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UN Draft 3

( yet?). The Lancet series on early onset type two diabetes has stated that in some countries there’s a prevalence of type two diabetes among adolescence of 15% or even more, the goal of reducing smoking by 150 million is astonishing due to the fact there are

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UN Draft 2

caused by NCDs that could be prevented. 80% of these occur in LMCs. The high-level UN meetings that have been held up-to-date have not achieved any significant change. The zero draft of the high level political declaration has not considered any substantial changes

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NCD UN High Level Draft zero 1

The recent editorial from the lancet Aug 30 stated that no significant progress in the fight against NCDs has been made. From the 60 million people dying every year around the globe around 40 million die from NCD‘s. 80% of the premature deaths

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Congrats to Angel’sIntiative Diamond status 2025 at the ESOC in Helsinki! The most effective stroke initiative in recent years! @michael_brainin @ESOstroke @WorldStrokeOrg

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@jeyaraj_pandian Compliments, Jeyaraj, Liu and your group for defining the two major points of action, stroke awareness and prehospital action. This has the potential for changing the mindset about stroke for a vast number of people around the globe. @WorldStrokeOrg @ESOstroke @michael_brainin

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@FishingNeurons @DavidSeiffge Welldone, compliments to Berne university, it is almost 20 years since we started the European Stroke Master‘s program at Danube University. Great to see young, fresh minds coming up. @michael_brainin @ESOstroke @WorldStrokeOrg

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#STROKE: The #ESCAS trial showed that cerebrolysin combined with speech and language therapy offers promising potential for enhancing recovery in poststroke aphasia. @michael_brainin #AHAJournals https://t.co/420B0w1DUI

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Is a Pandemic Treaty Still Possible? | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health https://t.co/UMJjnwCsNU

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Today’s press release:
https://t.co/Y8kUvw0Zui

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New publication from the ALL LIFE INSTITUTE: @WorldStrokeOrg @unikrems @WHO
Solving climate change requires changing our food systems in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change https://t.co/Ut2tPF2Uoi.

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The most important progress in 2024: double antiplatelet therapy is equivalent to thrombolytic therapy in mild ischemic strokes except when indicators for progression are present. Why so important? Because > 50% of all ischemic strokes are NINDS 1-5. @WorldStrokeOrg @ESOstroke

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Amazon and Meta each donate 1 mio to Trump. Now they are in line with X-Musk. They could have been the ones to go face to face with him. One more reason to restrict personal use of social media, consider getting out of twitter and to prefer going to the bookshop around the corner

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@PittStroke @RaulNogueiraMD @WorldStrokeOrg @PittNeurology @sheilambrasil Very fine, very simple. Good to see the polypill integrated into prevention scheme. Excellent podium! @WorldStrokeOrg @ESOstroke @michael_brainin

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The important risk factor hypertension focussed at the Joint World Stroke Organisation/ World Hypertension League session at the #WSC2024 in Abu Dhabi. How low is low? How to implement availability and affordability of antihypertensives @WorldStrokeOrg
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