A retired Michigan grocer is alive today thanks to his wife's quick reaction and a speedy response from an expert stroke team.
In animal tests, the experimental medicine helped lessen the effects of scarring and promoted the formation of new blood vessels.
Study: People with clogged arteries often have a different type of bacteria in their spit.
During a trip to her Michigan cottage, a burst aneurysm lands a Dallas woman in the emergency department. Two surgeries later and she's up and running.
Researchers are trying to understand the precise mix of factors that contribute to improved health outcomes.
The top number typically gets all the attention. A new study suggests it's time to give the bottom number its proper due.
Young adults stand to benefit greatly in later years if they act now to combat high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels.
Study: Even a modest amount of exercise lowers the odds of dying from this deadly type of stroke.
A lukewarm bath followed by light exercise could do just as well as heavy exercise when treating a cholesterol-related artery disease, researchers find.
Researchers are beginning to pin down the underlying genetics of a hereditary heart disease that causes high levels of LDL.
Hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol and smoking have long been seen as risk factors for stroke. A new report says it's time we add sleep disorders to the list.
The limited mobility of stroke survivors puts them at increased risk of osteoporosis, broken bones and falls—but most are never screened for these problems.
