(Reuters Health) - 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 ...

Gaps in the U.S. stroke transfer system are drastically reducing survivors' chances of receiving critical treatment 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 ...

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that. Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, new stroke prevention guidelines have been released for the first time in a decade, focusing on the nation’s fourth leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

On June 22, 2021, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law Senate Bill 21 (S.B. 21), which amends ORC 4765.401 governing protocols for the assessment, triage and transport to hospitals of stroke ...

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 ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death in California, according to state health leaders. They say more than 14,000 Californians die of stroke each year and ...

Gaps in the U.S. stroke transfer system are drastically reducing survivors' chances of receiving critical treatment and ...

FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina has updated its emergency stroke care protocol, a move applauded by the Get Ahead of Stroke® campaign. The protocol, which went into effect ...