The Plain Truth, Wednesday June 11, 2025
The Plain Truth
Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 26 minutes
June is Stroke Awareness Month, a time to shed light on one of Canada's leading health challenges. Host Paula Sheppard has two guests this week to dive into this issue. Her first guest is Dr. Michelle Ploughmen, A Canadian Research Chair and a Rehabilitation Brain Recovery Professor at MUN who joins the show by phone and her other guest is Sarah Jane Downton, who survived a stroke from a young age.
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