New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days ...

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 ...

Having an ischemic stroke during pregnancy or three months after pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of ...

After nonfatal myocardial infarction or stroke, initiation of a GLP-1 receptor agonist was linked to reduced risk for all-cause and CV-related mortality in patients with diabetes, researchers reported ...

Physical rehabilitation and symptom management still remain the mainstay of treatment for stroke, as clot removal or ...

The effects of an ischemic stroke, where blood supply to the brain is blocked, can vary depending on the area that’s affected, but commonly include physical impairments like one-sided weakness and ...

Strokes are the leading cause of adult disability across the UK, impacting an estimated 100,000 individuals annually. They events occur when the brain's blood supply is abruptly interrupted, either by ...

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, "Coherence of Stroke Survivors' Lived ...