New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

When someone is affected by a stroke, the standard treatment to restore blood flow to the brain can both save their life and ...

Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

For decades, the only viable tool to help stroke patients regain lost motor abilities — like walking or moving an arm — has been grueling physical rehabilitation. But what if a pill could do the work ...

Physical rehabilitation and symptom management still remain the mainstay of treatment for stroke, as clot removal or ...

A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that ...

A stroke patient who was rushed last year to an Orange County hospital that specializes in treating strokes suffered major brain damage after waiting nearly eight hours for surgery because the medical ...

Expanded eligibility for advanced ischemic stroke therapies and the first detailed recommendations pediatric stroke care are ...

Keeping your mouth healthy may help keep your heart and brain healthy too, according to new research. Keeping your mouth healthy may help keep your heart and brain healthy too, according to new ...

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 ...

Cardiologist Bob Harrington talks to Mitch Elkind, chief science officer for Brain Health and Stroke at the AHA, about the ...