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The event brings together neuro-rehab professionals and leading organisations from across the UK

Hot summer weather is like a stress test for the heart - and some people respond poorly to such stress. "They could have a heart attack. Their congestive heart failure symptoms could get much worse. Or they could have an arrhythmia," said Dr Lance Becker, chair of emergency medicine at Northwell Health, a health care [...]

Research findings could aid development of assistive tools for people with neurological injury or disease

Sleep duration is now considered an essential component for ideal heart and brain health, the American Heart Association has said. Life’s Essential 8 cardiovascular health score replaces Life’s Simple 7, according to 'Life’s Essential 8 - Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association’s Construct on Cardiovascular Health'. The presidential advisory was published on June 29 [...]

An international group of researchers has located a signal pathway in the brain that controls food intake. This is a big step towards the development of a drug for treating eating disorders and obesity - a leading cause of stroke. The scientists showed that a group of nerve cells in the hypothalamus (so-called AgRP, agouti-related peptide neurons) [...]

Along with high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking, environmental factors such as air pollution are highly predictive of people’s chances of dying, especially from heart attack and stroke, a new study shows. The study revealed that exposure to above average levels of outdoor air pollution increased risk of death by 20 per cent, and risk of [...]

Sector-leading research is set to generate a framework of wellbeing indicators for patients

A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia - a heart rate that’s too fast - and multiple spirals cause a state of disorganised contraction known as fibrillation. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses [...]

New research from the University of Florida has found genes that affect heart disease in women, but not in men. The work could start explaining why women experience heart disease differently than men do. When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies [...]

COVID-19 vaccination is not associated with an increased risk of heart attack or stroke in patients with established cardiovascular disease. That's according to a Hong Kong study published on June 22 in Cardiovascular Research, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “Our study showed that pre-existing cardiovascular disease should not prevent people from getting vaccinated against COVID-19,” [...]