New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When someone experiences a stroke, doctors must quickly restore blood flow to the ...

Traditional stroke rehabilitation therapy focuses on restoring strength and movement to the more impaired side of the body, ...

A type of therapy that stimulates specific brain pathways with electromagnetic pulses combined with physical therapy ...

In the U.S., a stroke happens roughly every 40 seconds. That means, in the time it takes to read a five-minute news article, ...

"The results of our trial potentially broaden the time window for the initiation of treatment, although there was more bleeding with the dual regimen than with the monotherapy," the authors wrote. In ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

The approval of this accelerated pathway not only demonstrates the FDA’s full recognition of the quality, safety, and efficacy of the Phase 1 clinical data of hNPC01 in China, but also will ...

When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life. But, ironically, that life-saving rush of blood can also trigger a second ...

A large meta-analysis found that initiating DOACs without delay in certain stroke patients reduced future stroke events without increasing symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage. The report included the ...