An update has been issued to MPs over NHS stroke treatment. Stroke patients need urgent treatment to avoid long-term or permanent damage. One of the most commonly used procedures is a thrombectomy, a ...

Across hospitals and health systems, stroke care sits at the intersection of several pressures leaders know well: rising acuity, uneven access to specialty care, workforce constraints and growing ...

Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been designated an acute stroke ready hospital by the Massachusetts Department of Public ...

George Harston, MD, chief medical and innovation officer for Oxford, U.K.-based Brainomix, said the appeal of the company’s technology is fairly simple. In explaining the company’s variety of ...

Patients on traditional Medicare plans were less likely to have access to certain stroke-preventing care versus those on Medicare Advantage but were also more likely to receive intensive post-stroke ...

Some patients with a common type of stroke benefit from a clot-busting drug given between 4.5 and 24 hours after symptoms emerged, according to a new study.

When it comes to responding to a stroke, speed is a crucial factor; the longer it takes for someone experiencing a stroke to get to a hospital, the worse the outcome will be. Yet across the United ...

What are the optimal measures to take in a patient with progressing stroke, or "stroke-in-evolution?" Once or twice each year, I will encounter a patient with a mild deficit upon admission who ...

Your spinal cord needs a steady blood supply to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. This blood helps the spinal cord cells send nerve impulses to the rest of your body. The impulses are ...

A study led by a speech neuroscientist at The University of Texas at Dallas sheds light on how damage from stroke disrupts the brain mechanisms required for fluent speech. The research, published in ...