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Guidelines suggest blood thinners for more women, seniors with AFib
Nearly all women and people over 65 in the U.S. with atrial fibrillation are advised to take blood thinners under new guidelines. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. It affects about 2.7 million people in the U.S. Anticoagulant drugs help prevent blood from clotting and potentially causing stroke.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 2, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Reviving drugs with anti-stroke potential, minus side effects
Scientists have found NMDA receptor antagonists that can limit damage to the brain in animal models of stroke, apparently without the pronounced side effects seen with similar drugs. Now researchers have found a potential path around this obstacle, they report.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 27, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Taking NSAIDs with anti-clotting medications, risk of bleeding, cv events
Among patients receiving antithrombotic therapy (to prevent the formation of blood clots) after a heart attack, the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an increased risk of bleeding and events such as heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death, even after short-term treatment, according to a study.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 24, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Recovering attention after a stroke: Brain's right hemisphere may be more valuable
The right hemisphere may assist a damaged left hemisphere recover visual attention after a stroke, new research suggests. "The results demonstrate that the tasks we do every day change how the brain pays attention to the world around us. By understanding how these changes occur in healthy individuals, we can focus on behaviors that are impaired in stroke patients and provide a focus for rehabilitation," one researcher noted.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 18, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Women active a few times weekly have lower risk of heart disease, stroke and blood clots
Middle-aged women physically active a few times per week have lower risks of heart disease, stroke and blood clots than inactive women. More frequent physical activity does not appear to lower the risks further, research shows.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 17, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Patients at higher risk of second stroke identified
Risk of recurrent stroke is higher in patients who have low blood flow to the back of the brain, a six-year, multi-center trial has found, and the condition can be visualized using specialized software that analyzes blood flow using standard MRI.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 13, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Breakthrough in stroke treatment: Stent thrombectomy
A randomized clinical research study looked at the effectiveness of a new treatment for stroke. The study involved adding a minimally invasive clot removal procedure called stent thrombectomy to standard clot-dissolving therapy, known as tissue plasminogen activator. The study showed a dramatic improvement in restoring blood flow back to the brain, which is critical in the recovery of stroke.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Treating the uninjured side of the brain appears to aid stroke recovery
To maximize stroke recovery, researchers may want to focus more on ways to support the side of the brain where the injury didn't occur, scientists report.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Stroke patients receiving better, more timely care
One in four acute ischemic stroke patients receiving the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator were transferred to a facility with expertise in stroke care. Those transferred to a certified stroke center were more likely to be younger, male and white. Hospitals that accepted transferred stroke patients were more common in the Midwest and more likely to be larger or academic medical centers.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Promising peptide for TBI, heart attack and stroke
By employing derivatives of humanin, a naturally occurring peptide encoded in the genome of cellular mitochondria, researchers are working to interrupt necrosis, buying precious time for tissues whose cellular mechanisms have called it quits.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 8, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Brain cells' role in navigating environment
A new study sheds light on the brain cells that function in establishing one's location and direction. The findings contribute to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying our abilities to successfully navigate our environment, which may be crucial to dealing with brain damage due to trauma or a stroke and the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 5, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Anti-epilepsy drug preserves brain function after stroke, research suggests
New research suggests that an already-approved drug could dramatically reduce the debilitating impact of strokes, which affect nearly a million Americans every year.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Groundbreaking technique developed to measure oxygen in deep-sited tumor, brain
A novel Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) oximetry technique will help clinicians directly measure oxygen and schedule treatments at times of high oxygen levels in cancer and stroke patients to improve outcomes, researchers have found.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Key discovery to preventing blindness, stroke devastation
Gene interactions that determine whether cells live or die in such conditions as age-related macular degeneration and ischemic stroke have been discovered by researchers. These common molecular mechanisms in vision and brain integrity can prevent blindness and also promote recovery from a stroke.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 30, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Heavy drinking in middle-age may increase stroke risk more than traditional factors
Drinking more than two alcoholic beverages a day in middle-age raised stroke risks more than traditional factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Heavy drinking in mid-life was linked to having a stroke about five years earlier in life irrespective of genetic and early-life factors.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 29, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
