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Stroke

These Infections Could Increase Your Stroke Risk

increase one’s vulnerability to a life-threatening stroke, questions have remained around the specific types of stroke that may be triggered...

Stroke

Singing Gives Speech Back to Mute Stroke Patients

sing perfectly well. So this concept is being applied to a specific type of stroke rehabilitation therapy that can help you or a loved one make a comeback if

Stroke

How to Stop a Stroke Before It Happens

...speaking. Ministrokes can be the precursor to a bigger and permanently damaging stroke. Still other people will get no warning before a stroke ...

Stroke

Stroke Treatment “Window of Opportunity” Gets Bigger

stroke patients who did not also have a prior history of stroke and diabetes, whose strokes were not considered severe an...

Stroke

Surprising Sign of Stroke: A Garbled Text Message

news on stroke: Read “The Red Secret to Stroke Prevention”…“Women’s Fatal Mistake in Seeking Help for Strok...

Stroke

A Grapefruit a Day Helps Keep Stroke Away

...for other stroke risk factors, such as smoking, age, body mass index and others. The other five flavonoids studied reduced stroke risk, too, bu...

Stroke

Can Stroking Prevent Stroke?

passed since the stroke began, it actually made the stroke worse. This time limit is consistent with what happens when strokes in...

Stroke

Delicious Foods that Prevent Stroke

...you so hungry right now? Because, according to a new analysis of seven studies, eating foods that are rich in magnesium may save you from having a stroke. That ...

Stroke

Don’t Underestimate the Dangers of “Little” Strokes

slurred speech, dizziness and vision problems. With a major stroke, if the patient survives, such symptoms can be severe and long-lasting, resulting in permanent d...

Driving

When Is It Safe To Drive After A Stroke?

...a stroke—and ultimately fail it. When we last reported on these tests, they were not yet available in the US. Now they are. HOW SERIOUS WAS THE ST...

Stroke

Stroke Risk for Women Is Different

Stroke is not an equal-opportunity health issue. Even accounting for women’s average longer life spans, more women than men in the US die of stroke

Stroke

Avoid a Stroke by Avoiding Shingles

the onset of a shingles attack. Protect yourself by knowing which shingles symptom is most associated with stroke and how you can lower your risk for shingles and ...

Stroke

Two-Pill Treatment Cuts Stroke Risk by One-Third After a TIA

My friend Donald recently suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also known as a ministroke or warning stroke. His strokelik...

Stroke

Let’s Bust a Myth About Stroke Recovery

live with more disability than they need to. According to the National Stroke Association, although the early days after a stroke are a crucial ti...

Heart

Stroke Risk Lingers Long After Heart Attack

It’s long been known that your risk for a stroke is increased during the month after a heart attack. But after that, it was thought, your stroke

Stroke

Recover Faster from a Stroke

to start rehab led to significantly worse outcomes. Second finding: A certain medication can prevent that stroke recovery window from closing so quickly. The overa...

Stroke

The Stroke Treatment You May Need to Ask For

a stroke, get familiar with the “thrombectomy-capable stroke center” nearest to you. This hospital will have undergone a rigorous cert...

Stroke

Do-It-Yourself Stroke Rehab? Surprising Findings…

examined the progress of 408 stroke survivors, all of whom had their strokes either two months or six months earlier. Some of the patients who had...

Stroke

The “Silent” Stroke Trigger—You Can Have This Condition and Not Even Know It…

When it comes to preventing stroke and heart-related disorders such as heart failure, it’s crucial to identify and properly treat “Afib”—sh...

Hearing Loss

Sudden Hearing Loss May Presage Stroke

Study Finds Association Between Sudden Hearing Loss and Stroke Sudden hearing loss may signal vulnerability to stroke, according to a recent study...