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 ...

Feb. 23—dbeard @dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN — In the ever-evolving quest to improve treatment for stroke victims, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently performed the first in-human procedure ...

Avoid offering anything by mouth. Medication, such as aspirin, could hurt the person more. Strokes can impair swallowing, and ...

Stroke can be tricky to diagnose as patients don’t always present with classic symptoms, and other conditions can mimic it. Researchers have used existing data to develop a machine-learning model that ...

In December 2011, Heather Rendulic awoke to a pricking, tingling feeling on the left side of her body. She later learned that a cluster of weak, tightly packed blood vessels near the base of her skull ...

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx opened up during his Netflix special that the mysterious illness he suffered last year was a brain bleed. The young, healthy actor was surprised he experienced a stroke, but ...

“There’s something about the light coming through the glass that’s so beautiful,” Jeannie Bridgeman says. Afternoon light streams through the windows of the ‘Mosaic On A Stick’ art studio in St. Paul.

Risk assessment Researchers from Caltech and the Keck School of Medicine at USC have created a portable laser-based headset that can estimate stroke risk. Caltech postdoctoral scholar Simon Mahler is ...

The antipsychotic risperidone is associated with increased stoke risk in older adults with dementia, even in those without cardiovascular disease (CVD), results of a large population-based study ...

In a rare case, a woman in the United Kingdom was hospitalized with severe heat stroke after spending too long in a sauna, doctors have revealed. The woman, who was in her early 70s at the time, had ...