Many stroke survivors and families of stroke survivors worry about the safety of flying as a passenger in an airplane after a stroke. Is the concern warranted? It certainly is a common question, so ...

Methods: Participants included 62 patients with acute ischemic stroke (24 left and 38 right) compared with 10 control participants with transient ischemic attack. Descriptions of the Precarious ...

Background: We investigate whether the NIHSS at 24 hours could serve as an alternative primary outcome measure in acute ischemic stroke trials, and whether combining 90-day modified Rankin Score (mRS) ...

Stroke Warning Sign Acronyms Drive 911 Calls, F.A.S.T. Leads in Symptom Recall for Public Jan. 30, 2025 — Both F.A.S.T. and BE-FAST acronyms motivated people to call 911 right away for a ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research a potential 25-year, $89 billion recompete contract to manage and operate a federally funded research ...

Since than a coroner could not find a definitive cause of death but said this was most likely due to an un-identified medical reason or heat stroke. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are two ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists have identified vascular health indicators that may help predict stroke risk ... be costly and less feasible for large-scale screening,” Yi said.

Abstract: The clinical diagnosis and treatment of motor dysarthria in post-stroke patients is often subjective and neglects ... To mitigate the limitations of subjective clinical scale diagnosis and ...

Background Early detection of large vessel occlusion (LVO) facilitates triage to an appropriate stroke center to reduce treatment times and improve outcomes. Prehospital stroke scales are not ...

What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke? The signs and symptoms of a stroke are the same for both men and women. Symptoms can happen suddenly or they can come and go over a few days. The main ...