The DIRECT ANGIO randomised clinical trial by Benjamin Gory and colleagues1 in The Lancet Neurology was designed to test a biologically compelling premise: that a direct transfer to angiography suite ...

Background Endovascular therapy (EVT) is standard treatment for large vessel occlusion in patients with a National Institutes ...

Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability and preventable disability in the United States. It is also the fifth leading cause of death, killing nearly 130,000 people in the U.S. each year.

Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been designated an acute stroke ready hospital by the Massachusetts Department of Public ...

Key points A 68-year-old woman presented to the emergency department of a rural hospital in southern Alberta 1 hour after ...

Across hospitals and health systems, stroke care sits at the intersection of several pressures leaders know well: rising acuity, uneven access to specialty care, workforce constraints and growing ...

Recent decades have seen a dramatic reduction in age-adjusted stroke-related mortality, presumably owing to better control of vascular risk factors, use of antithrombotic agents and improvements in ...

Prior stroke and neurological disability increased long-term mortality after myocardial infarction. Learn how neurological status may guide risk assessment.

The current guidelines of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the management of acute stroke, published in 2008 and updated in 2017, make it clear that, when acute stroke ...

Stroke remains one of Malaysia’s most pressing health challenges, consistently ranking among the country’s top causes of ...

Young adults may suffer strokes when using cocaine, meth, and even cannabis, and the onset may be shortly after drug use and is directly linked to these drugs.