Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke—that is nearly 800,000 people every year. As a part of HCA Healthcare, we collectively respond to strokes 38.3% faster than the national average, ...

Patient Strokes, Treatment and the Law: Issues to Consider As stroke cases are complex by nature and require in-depth medical and legal knowledge, including the ability to build a case with multiple ...

When Cheryl Hamrick woke up in the middle of the night, she didn’t know what time it was. It was the awful pain radiating from the right side of the back of her head that was at the forefront of her ...

Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Director, Stroke Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the MicroTransponder Vivistim Paired VNS System (Vivistim System), a first-of-its-kind, drug-free rehabilitation system intended to treat moderate ...

A stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted, either by a blockage or bleeding in the blood vessels. This disruption deprives brain cells of oxygen, causing them to die. The impact of a ...

On World Stroke Day, it’s a good time to learn the warning signs of a stroke, and a D.C.-area doctor explains how a simple acronym can help save a life. Oct. 29 is known as World Stroke Day, and the ...

The Houston-based startup is developing capabilities for endovascular aneurysm repair and stroke treatment that it hopes can ...

Repurposing two cheap and common drugs could become the first treatment for people who have experienced a lacunar stroke, said researchers. Lacunar strokes affect at least 35,000 people in the UK each ...