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"So much of the effort to prevent stroke has focused on blood pressure treatment," said the study's lead author Dr. George Howard, an emeritus distinguished professor of biostatistics at the ...

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Reed specializes in IV medications. Caffeine is one of the ... blood thinners if you have heart or blood conditions like stroke or to reduce the risk of blood clots after surgery.

A doctor of osteopathy, with psychiatric training in osteopathic clinics in Los Angeles and Tulsa, Weiner distributed his patients in four treatment rooms and hurried from one to another giving ...

If you've had a stroke, your healthcare team will closely monitor your heart condition and will also evaluate your heart health to ensure that you are getting the right treatment for any heart disease ...

This will likely be followed by various imaging tests to determine the cause of stroke and to make a plan for treatment, such as: An acute ischemic stroke is potentially manageable with a number of ...

A blood pressure medication could help prevent post-stroke epilepsy (PSE), according to research presented at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) annual meeting held 6-10 December. The research found ...

Women who have had strokes may be more likely than men to skip doses of medications that could help prevent a second stroke, according to new research. The study, published in the Journal of the ...

the greater their risk for stroke and the greater their need for blood pressure-lowering medications. Stroke risk was higher regardless of whether high blood pressure was treated. "So much of the ...