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Doctors certified to use strokebuster don’t
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s John Fauber used data from the Joint Commission to discover that a clot-busting drug that could help patients mid-stroke is not being used in between 30 percent and 60...
View ArticleResearchers share work on regeneration, reconstruction #ahcj13
In a Health Journalism 2013 panel focused on research taking place in regenerative medicine, Dany Adams, Ph.D., an associate research fellow at Tufts University, described her research with African...
View ArticleDoes this state make my butt look big?
A study published this month in the journal Obesity reports that the largest percentage of obese people in the United States live in the Great Plains, not in the South, as surveys have long indicated....
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Potassium intake linked to stroke risk in older women
Photo by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade via Flickr. Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat less...
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Men without caregivers at greater risk for nursing home placement following...
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health via Flickr Male stroke survivors over age 65 may be three times as likely to end up in a nursing home within five...
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Researchers identify new genetic stroke risk factors
Image: Geoff Hutchison via Flickr One of the largest analyses of stroke factors ever conducted is providing scientists with new clues to identify stroke mechanisms and potential treatments. Researchers...
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Van offers faster stroke diagnosis, treatment
Photo: Daria Kadovik/Cronkite NewsThe Barrow Emergency Stroke Treatment Unit, which cost about $1 million, is dispatched when Phoenix Fire has a possible stroke victim. PHOENIX – Stroke victims who...
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