Researchers at 37 sites in South Korea have found patients taking clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) experienced lower rates of both thrombotic and bleeding events than those taking aspirin. Clopidogrel's ...
Palliative care, an approach to care that helps people manage pain and other symptoms during all stages of a serious illness (not just at end of life), can help improve quality of life for stroke survivors as well as their ...
Dec 16, 2024
0
0
A new type of medical scanner developed by a University of Aberdeen team has shown that it can identify brain damage in stroke patients at lower magnetic fields than ever before.
Dec 12, 2024
0
30
Endovascular therapy, or EVT, a minimally invasive surgery performed inside the blood vessels—is 2½ times more likely than standard medical management to achieve a positive outcome after vertebrobasilar stroke that affects ...
Dec 12, 2024
0
0
Delaying the onset of high blood pressure may lower the risk of a stroke, new research suggests.
Dec 9, 2024
0
0
Some people develop epilepsy after surviving a stroke, as the injury they've sustained causes scarring and disorganized electrical activity in their brains.
Dec 9, 2024
0
0
New AI software can read the brain scans of patients who have had a stroke to more accurately pinpoint when it happened and help doctors work out whether it can be successfully treated.
Dec 6, 2024
0
45
Stroke survivors have an 80% increased risk of dementia compared to people who've never suffered a stroke, a new study finds.
Dec 6, 2024
0
0
Women who have had a stroke may be less likely than men to take medications to prevent a second stroke, with Mexican American women reporting the highest rates of nonadherence, according to research published in the Journal ...
Dec 4, 2024
0
0
A recent study by the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care reveals that an area of the brain distinct from the stroke lesion may play a significant role in causing the life-altering symptoms with which survivors are often left, ...
Dec 3, 2024
0
1
