First published on ScienceDaily.com The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear: Your father has Alzheimer's disease. Your mother has stroke-related dementia. A recently released study, included in a special supplement to the Journal of Gerontology,...

First published on ScienceDaily.com An experimental compound appears to improve stroke outcome by reducing the destructive inflammation that can continue months after a stroke, scientists report. Rats consuming compound 21 following a clot-based stroke -- the most...

First published on ScienceDaily.com A new computer programme developed by scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow can assess whole brain deterioration and help predict cognitive function after stroke up to ten times more accurately than current...

Published first on ScienceDaily Smoke from wildfires may send people -- particularly seniors -- to hospital emergency rooms (ERs) with heart, stroke-related complaints, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal...

First published on ScienceDaily Taking part in a hot chili pepper eating contest might have some unexpected consequences, highlight doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports. Their warning comes after a young man ended up in emergency care with excruciatingly painful...