Strokes

County-level maps can help identify racial, ethnic and geographic differences

March 28, 2008 -- The highest rate of stroke hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries exists among African-Americans and in counties located primarily in the southeastern states, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Texas Stroke Death Rates, Hispanics, By County    » read more »

30 September 2007 -- The World Heart Federation says heart disease and stroke are the world's largest killers, claiming 17.5 million lives a year. Marking World Heart Day, the Federation says knowing the risk factors and leading a healthy active lifestyle can largely prevent people from getting these chronic, ultimately fatal diseases.

The World Heart Federation says heart disease and stroke are commonly believed to be diseases of the wealthy. But studies show 80 percent of all deaths from these chronic illnesses occur in low and middle-income countries.    » read more »

Research published by SAGE in Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair

4-Sep-2007 -- Is it possible to offer hope for stroke patients who’ve lose part of their vision? A study published by SAGE in the journal Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair explores that question.    » read more »

May Yield New Treatments for Brain Injury

WASHINGTON, DC August 31, 2007 – New evidence from a patient shows that the area of the brain that processes visual inputs can reorganize after an injury caused by stroke. Scientists found that a brain region that had stopped receiving signals from the eyes because of a stroke began responding to signals formerly processed in adjacent brain areas.    » read more »

Heart disease and stroke are second and third leading causes of death in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Health today announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the department will receive $963,000 to address heart disease and stroke in Minnesota. The funding, which begins this month, may be renewed annually for the next five years.    » read more »

June 6, 2007 -- PASADENA, Calif. - NASA space technology is helping doctors diagnose and monitor treatments for hardening of the arteries in its early stages, before it causes heart attacks and strokes.

Hospitals and doctors around the country are using ArterioVision software initially developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., along with a standardized, painless, non-invasive ultrasound examination of the carotid artery, which carries blood from the heart to the brain.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, May 10 – Patients with a hemorrhagic (“bleeding”) stroke are significantly less likely to receive medications and counseling to prevent recurrent strokes compared to patients with an ischemic (clot-caused) stroke, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.    » read more »