Most older adults prescribed gabapentin after a stroke kept getting the drug for at least 1 year. Gabapentin is used off-label for post-stroke pain, despite limited guidelines and safety concerns. The ...

EAGAN, Minn. (WCCO) - A Minnesota postal worker who suffered a stroke while driving ended up behind bars instead of getting the medical help he needed, which cost him his life, according to a federal ...

SAN JOSE — When Linh arrived at her uncle’s jewelry store earlier this month, she found a sea of police cars and her 88-year-old uncle sitting in a chair in front of the store, shaking and panicked – ...

The addition of levodopa doesn’t improve motor function among patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation therapy after an acute stroke, according to the results of the placebo-controlled ESTREL trial ...

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients’ brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke, defying conventional thinking that the brain cannot regenerate following such a ...

A subtle shift in how you walk may help reduce knee pain and slow the progression of osteoarthritis, according to a new study. The study tested whether adjusting a person's foot progression ...

Stroke remains one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide, affecting millions each year. Among its most debilitating consequences is gait impairment, which affects over 80% of stroke ...

While strokes are widely recognized as a major cause of long-term disability in the United States, their quieter cousin, the mini stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA), often flies under the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Roughly half of the patients experience headaches following a hemorrhagic stroke, with more than one third reporting severe pain — yet headache management remains a largely neglected ...

A central South Carolina umpire died last weekend after collapsing due to heat stroke, according to officials. Mitchell Huggins, 61, was at a park working as an umpire during a softball tournament on ...

Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical ...

The safety and efficacy of treatment with intravenous tenecteplase before endovascular thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large-vessel occlusion remain uncertain. In this ...