World Stroke Day on October 29 is a reminder that strokes are one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. According to the ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] My father-in-law was one of the toughest people ...

The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association updated guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke, emphasizing primary care screening, lifestyle management, and risk factor ...

Each year in the U.S., over half a million people have a first stroke; however, up to 80% of strokes may be preventable. The new primary prevention of stroke guideline from the American Stroke ...

Indonesia’s leading healthcare enterprise, Kalbe Farma, partners with Life AI to launch StrokeGenme, a First-of-its-Kind Platform to Personalize Stroke Prevention Across Indonesia.

Stroke prevention is the cornerstone of management in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Contemporary international clinical guidelines advocate oral anticoagulation (OAC) therapy for patients ...

Erin Adelekun was 38 when she had a stroke, just nine days after giving birth to her daughter in 2020. It all started with a headache, which had been about a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 when she was ...

New guidelines from the AHA and ASA recommend GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for stroke prevention in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. They also highlight gender-specific risk ...

Joyce Gorham-Worsley shares her stroke experience to raise awareness on the importance of timely intervention and lifestyle management in preventing strokes.

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Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke, and about three-quarters occur in people ages 65 and older. "As people age, their arteries have a tendency to become less flexible," and clogged ...

Singer and actor Donald Glover made headlines when he announced that, at age 42, he had a stroke in 2024. A CDC study found ...