Stroke

After the emergency phase of a stroke, while you or your loved one is lying in a hospital bed, the inevitable questions creep in…What will...

Learning the signs and symptoms of stroke and how to respond to a stroke emergency is not something to put off until old age. While...

A stroke can be one of the most debilitating medical events of a person’s life…if they’re lucky enough to survive it. More than 20% of...

A stroke is a medical event in which blood flow to the brain is disrupted. In an ischemic stroke, this disruption is caused by a...

“Mini-stroke” is one of those terms that appears to make intuitive sense, so we throw them around as if we know exactly what they mean....

When you have a stroke, something goes wrong in a blood vessel feeding the brain. Either a blockage occurs or a vessel ruptures, forming a...

If you’ve ever had a family member or friend who suffered a stroke, you’re likely familiar with the signs that a stroke can leave behind....

The human brain is an astonishingly complex organ, with its approximately 87 billion nerve cells, called neurons, networked and interacting together in dazzling order to...

Unfortunately, most of us know someone who has suffered a stroke. Each year in the US, 795,000 strokes occur, a rate of one every 40...