A world-leading clinical trial is underway in New Zealand to determine whether cooling caps, already used in neonatal care ...

About 25% of Americans will experience a stroke, according to Steven Edgley, MD, director of stroke rehabilitation at University of Utah Health since 2006. Edgley knows full well how life-changing a ...

Legacy Hilo Rehab and Nursing by ʻOhana Pacific Health has enhanced guideline-based care for stroke patients, ultimately ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

Stroke patients who arrive at a hospital with a large blood clot blocking a major brain artery now have a new treatment ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Stroke recovery doesn’t end when a patient leaves the ...

CHOICE2 randomized 400 patients across 14 Spanish centers to thrombectomy alone versus thrombectomy plus intraarterial alteplase, with 90-day mRS as the primary endpoint. Excellent outcomes (mRS 0–1) ...

A patient’s ability to obtain timely and adequate access to rehabilitation services after a stroke is often dictated by racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic issues rather than their own needs ...

Acute ischemic stroke remains one of medicine’s most time-sensitive emergencies. When blood flow to the brain becomes blocked, approximately 1.9 million neurons die each minute without intervention.

Patients with moderate-to-severe disabilities before a stroke are frequently excluded from endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), ...

The results of an innovative study suggest electrical stimulation of the spinal cord could eventually help some of the many people disabled by strokes. Heather Rendulic had a stroke at age 23, ...