The Calgary Stroke Program, a joint University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services initiative at Foothills Medical Centre, has been involved with three papers published this week in The Lancet and ...

The Calgary Stroke Program, a joint University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services initiative at Foothills Medical Centre, ...

The latter are drugs that use enzymes to dissolve blood ... The combination of clopidogrel and aspirin has become a gold standard treatment for mini strokes in the last 10 years, following the ...

Learn the essential warning signs of mini strokes, how they differ from major strokes, and why immediate medical attention ...

Unlike conventional stroke treatments that focus solely on blood clots or cholesterol, these diabetes medications appear to offer comprehensive cardiovascular benefits. They not only help control ...

There’s new wisdom about a brain diagnosis that shouldn’t be ignored. A new study suggests that having a transient ischemic attack, also known as a “mini-stroke,” may have similar long ...

The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients' recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours after the beginning of an ischemic stroke, according to preliminary ...

A new study has found that prescribing blood thinners to adults under 65 with atrial fibrillation (AFib) but no other health ...

Heart disease treatment ... medications that help prevent harmful blood clots from forming or growing. Doctors often prescribe these medications to prevent a person’s first stroke, repeated ...