A former intensive care and home health nurse, Lana Wilhelm, has leveraged her experience as both a nurse and a family caregiver to found an organization ...

The NHS Fast (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym is a simple way to help people identify the most common signs of a stroke: ...

Not getting enough sleep can be dangerous for your health. A long-term lack of sleep raises your risk for obesity, diabetes, ...

Poststroke cognitive impairment and dementia (PSCID) is a major source of morbidity and mortality after stroke worldwide. PSCID occurs as a consequence of ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, or ...

Actor Arjun Bijlani and his wife, Neha, are mourning the sudden death of her father, Rakesh Chandra Swami, who passed away at ...

Background For people whose stroke risk would be reduced by taking a long-term oral anticoagulant (OAC), it is important to implement effective strategies to support medication initiation, adherence ...

Gearheads and faithful Jalopnik readers already know the basics of an engine's bore and stroke, but for those that might be new here, let's dip our toes in the shallow end. An engine's bore refers to ...

History has a flawless track record of foreshadowing trouble for next-big-thing technologies and innovations -- and quantum computing just made the list. Since the advent and proliferation of the ...

I was not privy to the “behind the scenes” culture of medicine prior to my entrance into healthcare. Unlike many of my classmates in medical school, my parents were not doctors, nor were their friends ...

Your spinal cord needs a steady blood supply to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. This blood helps the spinal cord cells send nerve impulses to the rest of your body. The impulses are ...