Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an...

On Tuesday, the new list of MacArthur “genius award” winners will be announced. If you’re on it, here’s what to expect:

Sex triggered a life-threatening stroke in a healthy 35-year-old Illinois woman, her doctors report.Sex- and orgasm-triggered strokes in relatively young women and men...

A blockbuster anemia drug made by a Johnson & Johnson company has been linked to the deaths of some patients in an experiment testing whether it could help stroke...

If you are heart patient or have ever incurred heart attack, so may be another health threat in the form of diabetes is not far away. Credit to bring out this...

It seems days have gone away when heart attack was considered a threat reserved for elderly people with its constant foraying into the lives of teenagers. It is true...

In the U.S., Women between the ages 45 to 54 face higher risk of stoke than men of the same age. Putting forward this belief, researcher held obesity responsible for...

Stroke may occur at any time and most of the time it goes undetected around the time within which something could have been done. The patients who suffered a stroke...

Thanks to the researchers of the University of Washington as they have developed a brain patch that effectively heals some of the injuries that brain incur because of...

Air pollution, besides being an established culprit in increasing global warming pushing the world towards disaster, it is also devastating for human health. The...

Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However,...

Millions of Canadians’ favourite morning tradition has come under attack from many corners in the last few years, but scientist and medical practitioners have had a...

Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests.The...

Celebrex is a prescription NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) used to treat arthritis pain and recently, the manufacturer Pfizer has put out an advertisement...

Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance for...

Being merely moderately fit _ walking briskly half an hour a day _ can lower the risk of having a stroke, according to a new study whose findings apply to women as well...

What do mammograms, blood-sugar tests and daytime dozing have in common? All may offer clues that someone is headed for a stroke, new studies suggest.Higher stroke risk...

Do you play golf, and are you a perfectionist? If yes, then you are reading the right matter, for here is the Putting Programmer, for a better putting. All you are...

In the cacophonous world of today, hypertension has turned out to be a common health problem with expected number of adults having high blood pressure is likely to...

With healthy lifestyle, proper medication and regular exercise, no doubt, you may stave off the threat of heart attack largely, however, what would you do if suddenly...