Smartphones and tablets are helping doctors at the Mayor Clinic Hospital in Phoenix save lives across Arizona. After conducting research and studies, neurologist Dr. Bart Demaerschalk determined ...

A UT Southwestern Medical Center study to evaluate nursing protocols designed to better triage and treat stroke patients using telemedicine will be the first study using a new consortium of medical ...

WASHINGTON -- Only about two of every 100 stroke victims are treated with the clot-busting drug TPA that might not only save their lives but keep them from being disabled. Many simply don't get to the ...

The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients' recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours after the beginning of an ischemic stroke, according to preliminary ...

When a stroke hits, a patient only has about four hours to seek treatment in order to recover with the best possible outcome, according to medical experts. For this reason, administrators and staff at ...

Physicians typically refer patients struggling with anxiety and depression after a stroke to counseling or psychotherapy. In some cases, they also prescribe a patient medications meant to improve ...

CHILI, N.Y. – The heat wave broke but summer is upon us and when you’re outside, there’s always concern about heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Local EMS teams are testing some new ways to treat ...

In 2006, Kevin Sheth was a 27-year-old neurology resident in Boston, at both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In that role, he did rotations within their neurology ...

MURRAY — Ann Itchon says she will never forget the sound of her husband falling in the bathroom the night he suffered a stroke. On Jan. 23, 2024, Ted Itchon woke up around 2 a.m. to use the bathroom ...