Mini stroke, medically referred to as a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), is a condition that the American Stroke Association ...

When news of a respiratory illness spreading through China first broke, Dr. S. Andrew Josephson — chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco — didn’t anticipate that his ...

Every year, nearly 800,000 people will have a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of these strokes will be what’s called ischemic, which is when blood flow to the ...

Q: When my cousin developed dizziness and nausea she went to the emergency room and they told her she bad benign vertigo. She got better with their treatments and was discharged with a prescription.

A stroke occurs when oxygen supply to the brain is partially blocked. Death or paralysis can occur in minutes, if medical help is not provided, which is why strokes are a medical emergency, that ...

Fast highlights the most common warning signs of stroke, but some strokes present differently. To make sure fewer cases are ...

A government report revealed the top five conditions that are misdiagnosed in American emergency rooms. The report was published on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency ...