Emergency room doctors treating heart attack patients often fail to administer powerful clot-preventing drugs in the proper doses, according to a recent study. One common error is overprescribing-giving a dose large enough to cause potentially dangerous bleeding, the researchers say. The Study...
In a study, intensive cholesterol-lowering therapy using rosuvastatin (Crestor)-a powerful (and controversial) member of the statin family of drugs-not only reduced...
Adding a new spin to the battle of the sexes, researchers say severely obese women outperform their male counterparts when it comes...
An aspirin a day helps keep heart attack and stroke at bay in women diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. But a new study...
Women often aren't being given lifesaving diagnoses and treatments for heart disease, al though it is their leading cause of...
Virtual reality games improve the ability of stroke survivors to walk and also appear to improve function in the damaged part of...
Most stroke patients require rehabilitation to recover their physical skills and to regain the ability to live independently. Recent developments in stroke...
Researchers are discovering important insights into how to treat stroke patients by challenging healthy people to learn unfamiliar tasks. The research may...
An observation by an emergency room nurse may lead to a new way to limit the damage caused by a stroke, researchers...
In the critical hours after a stroke, pictures of the brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) give doctors more valuable information than...
Medications for treating migraine pain and preventing migraine attacks are rapidly improving. However, a series of small studies has scientists questioning if...
Positive results from a major international trial suggest that a drug used to treat 1 hemophilia may reduce deaths and disability from...