(Bill Hinton Photography/Moment Open via Getty Images) The room buzzes with activity as a team of nurses races against the clock. But instead of working to manage a medical crisis, they’re playing a game that involves tinkering with jigsaw puzzles, black lights and locks to solve medical mysteries. It’s all part of an escape room…
(Rudzhan Nagiev/iStock via Getty Images) Having a stroke may triple a person’s risk for developing dementia within the following year, new research finds. And while that risk begins to drop after the first 12 months, it remains elevated for up to 20 years, according to findings to be presented next week at the American Stroke…
(Science Photo Library – PASIEKA/Brand X Pictures via Getty Images) What looks and feels like a stroke sometimes isn’t. Instead, sudden weakness, difficulty speaking, vision changes, dizziness and other symptoms of a stroke might be caused by something else – a stroke mimic. Conditions that mirror a stroke include seizure, migraine, psychiatric disorders, brain tumors,…
(seb_ra/iStock via Getty Images) Most stroke survivors may be able to safely take commonly prescribed antidepressants to aid in their recovery, according to new research that could allay concerns over abnormal bleeding risks associated with these drugs. People with clot-caused strokes, or ischemic strokes, who took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and/or serotonin and…
(Jolygon/iStock via Getty Images) Lea en español Norma Hernández was preparing for choir practice for a church service when someone came looking for help. Another church member, a friend of hers, had fallen ill. Hernández rushed to her friend and found him slumped in a chair, his wife standing beside him. He looked tired and…
(andreswd/E+ via Getty Images) Black people who have had strokes have more cardiovascular risk factors than people who are not Black, but those risks may be reduced through intensive interventions, new research suggests. The study, published Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, found that Black adults who had strokes due to severe blockages…
Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele on a hike at Mount Burdell in Marin County, California. “I love doing things in nature,” he said. “And hiking, I think more than anything else, has been a way to be more physically active and also to just unplug.” (Photo courtesy of Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele) Few people know more about stroke…
Stroke survivor Joe Granados on a recumbent trike in April. (Photo courtesy of Alba Patricia Granados) Lea en español Joe Granados was slumped in a chair when his wife – alerted by their children – came to check on him. He didn’t seem like himself. Alba Patricia Granados, a nurse, quickly realized her husband was…
(RUNSTUDIO/DigitalVision via Getty Images) Lea en español Sudden, painless loss of vision. Burning back pain. Achy legs. Incontinence. People might not recognize these as signs of a stroke, because some are not the symptoms of a stroke in the brain, where most strokes occur. But strokes can happen in other parts of the body, too,…
(SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images) Stroke care is rife with inequities, and fixing them will require more research into issues such as structural racism and other “upstream” social factors that affect where people live, learn, work and play, a new report says. The report, a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, summarizes research on…