More than 99% of people who developed heart disease, stroke or heart failure in a large study had at least one common cardiovascular risk factor beforehand. Those factors involved blood pressure, ...

Yeah, to me, a hip fracture is the equivalent of a heart attack or a stroke. If people want to prevent heart attack or stroke ...

Adults in their 60s who scored lower on tests of thinking and memory were more likely to have a stroke later, according to a ...

What frequently starts as an innocuous, itchy patch resembling common ringworm or allergic eczema can actually be the onset ...

Last Christmas, Heather Huff was in rehab, relearning how to walk, talk and live again. This year, she’s walking into the holidays on her own two feet and using what she survived to help others ...

People who experienced transient ischemic attack had a higher risk for developing dementia than those who did not have one, and dementia rates in these patients were three times higher than stroke ...

Comprehensive, individualized rehabilitation can help survivors of stroke maximize recovery, regain independence and improve quality of life, according to a new guideline from the American Stroke ...

Mukul Sharma, Raed Joundi and Ashkan Shoamanesh discuss the causes of strokes alongside current and emerging approaches to ...