Tools for preventing strokes include a healthy diet, home blood pressure monitoring and an online stroke-risk estimator, according to updated guidelines issued Wednesday by a leading heart health ...

(Reuters Health) - Many people who wake up with stroke symptoms may find doctors reluctant to provide some treatments because guidelines put a time limit on when they can be given effectively, and ...

More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, which is a leading cause of serious long-term disability. Many of the leading risk factors for stroke are modifiable, making prevention ...

Accepted into StartX Spring 2026, AI-Stroke advances U.S. EMS stroke research with new advisors, clinical studies, and ...

Strokes are the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States, and the leading cause of disability — but up to 80% of them are preventable. That’s according to the American Stroke Association (ASA ...

Previously, the guidelines said the drug must be delivered within three hours of the onset of symptoms. The drug, called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, breaks down blood clots in the brain, and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — As many as 80% of the more than half-million strokes in the U.S. each year could be preventable, according to the American Stroke Association's new clinical guideline that calls for a ...

Patients suffering from a stroke are more likely to have improved outcomes and fewer complications when hospitals use standardized guidelines for stroke care during a patient’s admission and discharge ...

WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital received a DNV Primary Stroke Center accreditation. According to a press release, ...

Women have unique risk factors for stroke The American Heart Association tailored guidelines to women More women are affected by stroke than men because women live longer Women may have many of the ...