A new report details the case of a patient on the new experimental Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, who died after experiencing numerous acute intracerebral hemorrhages during treatment with tissue ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For over a decade, the drug called tPA has proven its worth as the most effective emergency treatment for the most common kind of stroke. But its promise is blemished by two facts: ...
Not only did TARGET: STROKE, a new quality improvement program aimed at improving door-to-needle (DTN) times for patients with acute ischemic stroke, increase the number of patients receiving ...
Stroke patients who were older and had disturbances of their consciousness had a greater risk of death in the hospital following thrombolytic (clot-dissolving) therapy, according to an article in the ...
According to the American Stroke Association, stroke is the nation's No. 3 killer. Statistics show that someone in America has a stroke every 53 seconds. That adds up to approximately 600,000 people ...
If you have a stroke, the protein FSAP may help to reduce the extent of paralyses and problems with speech. Every year, about 12 million people suffer from a stroke worldwide. A stroke occurs suddenly ...