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Hibernating ground squirrels provide clues to new stroke treatments
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In the fight against brain damage caused by stroke, researchers have turned to an unlikely source of inspiration: hibernating ground squirrels. While the animals' brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects. Now, a team of NIH-funded scientists has identified a potential drug that could grant the same resilience to stroke patients.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
UK HealthCare, partners receive prestigious CDC grant to improve stroke care in Kentucky
(University of Kentucky) UK HealthCare, UofL Health, the Kentucky Department for Public Health's Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program (KHDSP), and other state partners have been awarded the prestigious Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program Grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This $1.8 million grant aims to optimize both stroke prevention among those at high risk as well as improve the care and outcomes for stroke patients throughout Kentucky.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NIH awards $40 million in grants to reduce stroke disparities in the US
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Four research centers will develop high-impact culturally tailored interventions aimed at lowering stroke risk among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Together the centers are expected to receive $40 million in funding over five years, contingent on the availability of funds from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
UCLA, USC get $2M to develop stroke center network in Southland
(University of California - Los Angeles) A three-way partnership between the UCLA Stroke Center at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center, the University of Southern California (USC) Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Keck Medicine of USC, and UC Irvine has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address those three stroke priorities.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 15, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
UCLA researchers awarded $11 million grant to develop stroke prevention interventions for minorites
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA researchers and their partners across Los Angeles County have been awarded an $11 million grant to fund research on community-based interventions to reduce the higher rates of stroke and death from stroke among disadvantaged populations.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
High blood pressure among blacks and young adults is focus of $11 million stroke prevention project
(University of California - San Francisco) A new $11 million grant to Kaiser Permanente Northern California and UC San Francisco will support a multifaceted research program aimed at lowering stroke risk among black populations and younger stroke victims by targeting high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 19, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Cleveland institutions receive NIH grant for regional stroke clinical trials coordinating center
(Case Western Reserve University) Five Cleveland biomedical research and health care institutions have received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the National Institutes of Health, to collaborate on developing the Cleveland Stroke Clinical Trials Regional Coordinating Center.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai named to new NIH Stroke Research Network
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is an inaugural member of the NIH's Stroke Trials Network. It will receive a 5-year, $1.3 million grant to build a collaborative research infrastructure for a NYC regional coordinating stroke center.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - December 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Stroke in children will be focus of $3 million grant
(University of Colorado Denver) Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, already focused on understanding and minimizing the effects of stroke in children, will receive $3 million as part of a national effort to better understand stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Kessler Foundation awarded major Wallerstein Foundation grant for stroke research
(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation was awarded a $250,000 grant by the Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement. The three-year grant will advance the Foundation's stroke rehabilitation research in the diagnosis and treatment of spatial neglect, a hidden disability that complicates recovery after right brain stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Wayne State embarks on study to improve identification of women at high risk of stroke
(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine physicians will seek to develop methods to better identify women at increased risk for stroke using a new type of professional education grant.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 25, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New stroke research combines brain stimulation, gait training
(University of Illinois at Chicago) A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients' ability to walk after a stroke, under a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
How does language capacity recover right after a stroke?
(University of Arizona) An interdisciplinary team of University of Arizona researchers has received a $2.098 million grant to study recovery of language in the first few months after a stroke. The findings are expected to guide health care practitioners and speech pathologists in developing treatments that help patients regain as much of their language skills as possible.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Helping stroke patients transition from hospital to home
(Michigan State University) Stroke patients and their family caregivers often find the transition from hospital to home difficult. However, a new $2 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will help Michigan State University researchers look at ways to improve that experience using a nontraditional approach.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Neurosurgery researchers receive NIH grants to study Parkinson's, stroke, & brain cancer
(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Researchers from the Department of Neurological Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center recently received multi-year, multi-million dollar grants from the National Institutes of Health for studies in Parkinson's disease, stroke, and brain cancer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
