Stroke

Using blood pressure medications to lower the top number of blood pressure readings (systolic blood pressure) may not be safe or effective among people who have an acute ischemic stroke and undergo a successful mechanical clot removal. The University of Cincinnati and UC Health’s Eva Mistry, MBBS, national principal investigator and lead author of the [...]

A project to investigate post-stroke neglect and autism has received an US$800,000 funding boost.  Scientists at the Kessler Foundation, which leads groundbreaking rehabilitation and disability employment research, have received almost US$800,000 in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) . It will enable them to expand research in the fields of neglect dyslexia and autism. [...]

Work is underway in the US to improve cholesterol screenings to help reduce cardiovascular disease including stroke, thanks to a new partnership. The American College of Cardiology, is collaborating with Amgen and Esperion, to launch a new quality improvement campaign, Driving Urgency in LDL Screening. Its aim is to increase the rate of diagnostic LDL [...]

The World Stroke Organisation (WSO) has announced the latest winners of its Future Stroke Leaders Programme; which funds innovators helping to reduce the global burden of stroke. Its assessment committee considered nine project proposals which all incorporated the overall programme objective and were in line with the WSO’s mission, to reduce the global burden of [...]

Following several years of development and validation, product moves closer to NHS adoption

US scientists are delving deeper into the role of a specific form of cholesterol known as very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) in various conditions including stroke. The journey to uncover the influence of cholesterol in cardiovascular health traces back to the pioneering work of François Poulletier de la Salle, who, in 1769, successfully isolated cholesterol from a [...]

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy is an up-and-coming biomedical imaging technique for studying a broad range of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and stroke. But its insufficient sensitivity has been a longstanding obstacle for its wider application. Recently, a research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) developed a multi-spectral, super-low-dose photoacoustic microscopy system with a [...]

Benefits of patients going directly to specialist thrombectomy centre investigated

A coalition of  health charities and professional bodies last week came together at the Scottish Parliament to demand that access to rehabilitation is recognised as a human right in law. Tens of thousands of people across Scotland are currently not receiving the rehabilitation they require, with the recent Stroke Improvement Programme stated that an estimated [...]

New research claims that those living with atrial fibrillation in the UK are 50 per cent less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium. By analysing the health records of over 70,000 patients newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF), this research showed that mortality [...]