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Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers report today in Nature Communications.
Oct 1, 2024
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When physicians want to know more about a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease, they can order a cardiac stress test. But when it comes to risk of stroke, there is no equivalent scalable and cost-effective test of the ...
Sep 30, 2024
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A study based on clinical trial data found higher risks of stroke, heart attack, and hospital admission for heart failure in older cancer survivors. In the analysis published in the journal Cancer, chemotherapy was also linked ...
Sep 23, 2024
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Doctors and pharmacists treating people with blood thinners can reduce the rate of inappropriate dosing—as well as blood clots and strokes that can result from it—using an electronic patient management system, a study suggests.
Sep 17, 2024
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Atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart beat that can lead to stroke or sudden death, is three times more common than previously thought, affecting nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 million U.S. adults, according ...
Sep 11, 2024
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During a stroke, Black Americans arrive later to emergency departments—which are less likely to be notified of a patient's condition ahead of time, a national study shows.
Sep 10, 2024
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The cardiovascular safety of an interrupting beta-blocker could not be shown in comparison to continuation in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI) and there was no benefit to the patients' quality of life, ...
Aug 30, 2024
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The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation, developed in collaboration with the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), include a number of new approaches ...
Aug 30, 2024
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Researchers used real-world clinical data to attempt to emulate a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of two blood thinners, apixaban and warfarin, to prevent stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Some patients who receive heart valve implants develop dangerous blood clots, and researchers from the University of Waterloo contributed to an international collaboration that reduces the risk.
Aug 20, 2024
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