Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance for treating this often-fatal problem.
A new report details the case of a patient on the new experimental Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, who died after experiencing numerous acute intracerebral hemorrhages during treatment with tissue ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For over a decade, the drug called tPA has proven its worth as the most effective emergency treatment for the most common kind of stroke. But its promise is blemished by two facts: ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Forty percent of emergency physicians say they're unlikely to give stroke patients the only FDA-approved drug shown to improve their prognosis, even in an ideal setting, mostly ...
Shirley Riddle, an elderly woman, collapses, shaking, outside the emergency room. Her daughter, Maureen (Erinn Hayes), tells Dr. Brenda Marshall (Anne Ramsay), the doctor on duty, that her mother’s ...
A highly effective leukemia pill may reduce complications and boost the effectiveness of a treatment for the most common type of stroke, an international team of researchers said on Sunday. Studies in ...
Researchers have developed a new tool for addressing disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) - a blood disorder that proves fatal in many patients. The technology has not yet entered clinical ...