Stroke

A Comparison of the Responsiveness of the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke and the Berg Balance Scale in Patients With Severe Balance Deficits After Stroke

11 hours ago | LWW

Background and Purpose: Previous evidence that the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke and the Berg Balance Scale have similar responsiveness is doubtful. Compared with the...
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Combination of Chikungunya and Zika Virus Linked to Stroke

17 hours ago | Medindia Health

Combination of zika virus and chikungunya virus is found to trigger stroke. Stroke following zika and chikungunya virus can be deadly and also result in death.
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Combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke

1 day ago | News Medical | 2 articles

A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research published in the The Lancet Neurology has found.
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Mosquito-borne viruses linked to stroke

1 day ago | ScienceDaily | 2 articles

A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research has found.
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Ticagrelor plus aspirin reduces ischemic limb events in diabetes, stable CAD: THEMIS

1 day ago | Healio

Among patients with diabetes and stable CAD, ticagrelor plus aspirin reduced ischemic limb events compared with aspirin alone, according to new data from the THEMIS randomized...
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Author Response to Budhram, et al

1 day ago | Pediatric Neurology | 2 articles

We would like to thank Budhram et al. for their interest in our report, “A Stroke Mimic: Anti-MOG Antibody-Associated Disorder Presenting as Acute Hemiparesis.”1 As the authors...
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Stroke Scans Reveal COVID-19 Infection

1 day ago | Medindia Health | 4 articles

COVID-19 can be diagnosed on the same emergency scans including computed tomography of the head and neck blood vessels that are intended to diagnose stroke.
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Reproductive Life Span May Affect a Woman's Heart Risks

1 day ago | NY Times

Women with a shorter time between menarche and menopause were at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke.
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COVID-19 could be diagnosed using stroke scans

2 days ago | News Medical | 3 articles

New research from King's College London has found that COVID-19 may be diagnosed on the same emergency scans intended to diagnose stroke.
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Smoking linked to bleeding in the brain in large, long-term study of twins

2 days ago | ScienceDaily | 2 articles

Researchers in Finland found a link between smoking and subarachnoid hemorrhage , a type of bleeding stroke, in a study of more than 16,000 pairs of twins over 42 years. The...
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Youngsters barred from seeing their parents amid chaos over Covid...

A once-cheerful 35-year-old woman with a learning disability was physically held down by care home staff in the UK - after reaching for her mother's hand. Read more ...

CDK4/6 Inhibition Boosts PFS in Endometrial Cancer

Women with advanced, hormone receptor -positive cervical cancer lived more than twice as long without disease progression if they received the CDK inhibitor palbociclib in... Read more ...

Hundreds Gather On Steps Of Supreme Court To Honor RBG's Life

Mourners gathered within hours of hearing about Ginsburg's passing As the heartbreaking news spread about the death of woman's rights champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg , crowds... Read more ...

Andhra Continues to Log Higher COVID-19 Recoveries

Andhra Pradesh has been steady in clocking a higher number of COVID recoveries than the daily detection rate of new COVID infections, stated health officials. Read more ...

Use of the BESTest and the Mini-BESTest for Fall Risk Prediction in...

Background and Purpose: Reference values for the Balance Evaluation Systems Test and the Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test need to be established to predict falls in older... Read more ...

Around 93K COVID-19 Cases Take India Tally Across 53L

Continuing with its massive daily spike, India recorded 93,337 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking its overall tally across the 53-lakh mark, data from the Ministry... Read more ...

Safer UV Light Effectively Kills Coronavirus

A safer ultraviolet light was found to effectively kill the virus causing COVID-19 pandemic, revealed researchers. Read more ...

US CDC Updates Guidelines on COVID-19 Testing For Asymptomatic People

Guidelines for testing asymptomatic people have been updated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These guidelines further reinforce the need to test even the... Read more ...

Cancer Patients May Not Have Higher COVID-19 Risk: Study

Cancer patients do not get infected with COVID-19 than the general population and do not suffer from more severe disease symptoms, stated study. Read more ...

Up to 50% of people may already have immune cells that could fight coronavirus

Tests done on donated blood in the US found that about 50 percent of the samples had immune T cells that reacted to coronavirus. Immune cells to similar viruses might protect... Read more ...