An Internet-based examination system enables stroke patients to be treated as rapidly in rural communities as they are in bigger hospitals with stroke teams, researchers have found. An Internet-based ...

Since 2004, doctors in rural emergency rooms have been using webcams to get an expert opinion before treating stroke patients. A report, published on Aug. 3 in The Lancet Neurology says that the new ...

October 16, 2009 (Baltimore, Maryland) — Patients presenting with dizziness may actually be having a stroke, and investigators have discovered a bedside approach to help clinicians identify these ...

A simple, one-minute eye movement examination by the bedside by doctors works better than MRI to identify impending stroke in patients complaining of dizziness and nausea. A simple, one-minute eye ...

Surgeons using XCath’s telerobotic system performed the world’s first remote robotic intervention on a stroke patient, with ...

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Making a stroke victim bleed from his fingers won't prevent further harm. What's Undetermined Asking a stricken victim to stick out his tongue may help diagnose a stroke. Each year an estimated ...

The risk of recurrent ischemic stroke can be reduced by managing modifiable risk factors and instituting a regimen of mechanism-specific secondary stroke prevention. Strategies for secondary ...