Each year in the United States, approximately 700,000 people experience the devastating effects of a stroke.  Most of those strokes, about 87% of them, are ischemic strokes, which are caused when an artery to the …

Doctors attribute several factors to the stroke suffered by an unidentified 35-year-old woman who began feeling weakness in her left arm just minutes after engaging in sexual intercourse. The very act of sex itself …

By 2010, an estimated 20% of the United States population will be 65 years old or older.  It’s this same age group that experiences the highest number of heart attacks and strokes but cholesterol-lowering drugs, …

As if chocolate lovers needed yet another reason to indulge guilt free, researchers from Harvard University and Mars, Incorporated, have released their findings that a naturally occurring substance in cocoa can actually bring long-term improvements …

While the evidence is unavoidably clear that smoking cigarettes increases a person’s risk of having a stroke, there is relatively little data that identifies the dosage amount that places a smoker in the danger zone. …

One out of every three US residents lives in a rural area that makes getting immediate medical care in times of emergency a sometimes-risky predicament.  Speed of emergency medical care is especially important with medical …

Nobody likes secondhand smoke (SHS).  It’s annoying, nasty, and it can make nonsmokers sick.  Being around it a lot can increase a nonsmoker’s risk of coronary heart disease.  A newly released study provides evidence it …

For the first time ever, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have issued guidelines for dealing with strokes in infants and children, an event once thought so rare that such guidelines were …

When all other risk factors are relatively equal, postmenopausal women who sleep between seven and eight hours each night are less likely to experience an ischemic attack, or stroke, than women of the same age …

More than 10% of a large group of middle-aged study participants who appeared otherwise healthy said they’d never had a stroke, either, but brain scans revealed evidence of silent cerebral infarction (SCI), also called a …