Category: Stroke Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COLUMBUS, Ohio – The drug gabapentin, currently prescribed to control seizures and reduce nerve pain, may enhance recovery of movement after a stroke by helping neurons on the undamaged side of the brain take up the signaling work of lost cells

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – They call heart disease a silent killer, and it doesn’t get much more silent than carotid stenosis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – EDISON, NJ, – January 5, 2022 started off just like any other workday for Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Michael (Mike) DiMeglio, 28.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Stroke is the second-leading cause of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., about 800,000 strokes occur per year.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In a YouTube video titled “telling my story”, model Hailey Bieber recently opened up about her March 10 health scare. The model and wife of singer, Justin Bieber, suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA)….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT (May 4, 2022) – Henry Ford Medical Center – Brownstown has earned an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital advanced stroke certification from The Joint Commission….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the warning signs of stroke and the need for prompt treatment.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, April 7, 2022 — Stroke survivors who practiced a seated form of Tai Chi had equal or greater improvement in hand and arm strength, shoulder range of motion, balance control….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study authored by three NAU researchers found that people with lower socioeconomic status and people from ethnic minority populations have a greater likelihood of severe stroke….

(HealthNewsDigestcom) – Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital has received Primary Stroke Center designation from the Joint Commission-a nonprofit accrediting body for healthcare organizations and programs-and the American Stroke Association. The designation certifies the…

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW ORLEANS, — When comparing outcomes for acute ischemic stroke patients treated at various levels of stroke centers, patients who received care at Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSC) or Thrombectomy-capable Stroke Centers (TSC) ….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10, 2022 — If patients with clot-caused strokes obtain medical care more than 4½ hours after their symptoms are noticed, it is too late to receive the standard clot-busting medication alteplase.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10, 2022 — Direct oral anti-coagulant (anti-clotting) (DOAC) medications that target a single clotting factor work just as well to prevent future clots as the older, less-specific medication warfarin.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, Feb. 9, 2022 — Although hospitalized patients are in a monitored environment, stroke evaluation and treatment are often delayed compared to patients arriving with a stroke at the emergency department

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MINNEAPOLIS – The worldwide incidence and mortality rates for stroke decreased slightly from 1990 to 2019, but the overall numbers are still high, especially in high- and middle-income countries

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A human stroke drug, fast-tracked by the Food and Drug Administration and soon entering Phase 3 clinical trials, shows intriguing signs that it might also be a safe and powerful defense against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When someone has a stroke, prompt diagnosis and treatment can mean the difference between recovery and lifelong disability.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOWIE, Md., and DALLAS, — Nearly one in 10 stroke survivors will experience a seizure

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – All of Henry Ford Health System’s five hospitals that are equipped to treat stroke earned Gold Plus and Honor Roll status for stroke care excellence from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Atrial fibrillation, also called AFib, is a condition in which the heart beats chaotically and rapidly. As many as 6 million people in the United States and 9% of those over the age of 65 have the condition.