DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently had a CAT scan of my chest as an evaluation for pneumonia. I didn’t have pneumonia, but I got an unexpected high calcium score in my coronary arteries. Does the calcium I ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - UC Health celebrated a milestone Tuesday. Its Mobile Stroke Unit has now been in operation for four years. The UC Health Mobile Stroke Unit is one of the few in the country that is ...

ABU DHABI, UAE — Extending the simple CT angiography (CTA) scan given to all patients with acute stroke on presentation to the hospital to include the upper part of the heart increased the detection ...

Not to B-negative, but your blood type could offer a clue to your risk of having a stroke before 60. “The number of people with early strokes is rising,” said Dr. Steven J. Kittner, co-principal ...

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ENJOY YOURSELF. THANK YOU. KELLY ANN AT 816 FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH THIS MORNING. FEELING THE FIRST SIGNS OF A STROKE. FOR SOME PEOPLE IT IS A SUDDEN AND SEVERE HEADACHE OR WEAKNESS ON ONE SIDE, BUT OTHER ...

Intravenous thrombolysis is a standard treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The efficacy and safety of combining intravenous thrombolysis with argatroban (an anticoagulant agent) or eptifibatide (an ...

The effects and risks of the use of intravenous thrombolysis between 4.5 and 24 hours after the onset of a posterior circulation ischemic stroke are not well studied. In a trial conducted in China, we ...

(CNN) — One in six deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States is due to stroke, and over 100 million people worldwide have had a stroke, which is a leading cause of serious long-term ...