According to a new American Heart Association scientific statement, people with dementia or a pre-existing disability who receive timely and appropriate treatment for ischemic stroke (caused by a ...

When Joseph Broderick was a college sophomore in 1975, stroke treatment was a waiting game. Doctors could diagnose a stroke but couldn’t stop it. There were no scientifically proven therapies, no ...

Apr. 14—URBANA — For decades, hospitals have treated strokes caused by blood clots with the standard clot-busting drug alteplase. Now, OSF HealthCare hospitals have joined several others that have ...

Several Aspirus hospitals earned 2025 stroke care awards from the American Heart Association for following lifesaving ...

Innovations in stroke diagnostics and treatment techniques are saving brains — and lives — and making it possible to reverse disability from stroke. Since most strokes are “ischemic,” or caused by a ...

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 ...

Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH Bath) has launched a recruitment drive for isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol trials – oral medication which may help patients who have had an ischaemic or lacunar ...

Kona Community Hospital received national recognition for its commitment to providing high-quality, evidence-based stroke ...