When news of a respiratory illness spreading through China first broke, Dr. S. Andrew Josephson — chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco — didn’t anticipate that his ...

In adults discharged home after an emergency department visit for dizziness, the 30-day incidence of stroke with disability or death was very low — approximately 1 in 2500 patients. Researchers ...

Q: When my cousin developed dizziness and nausea she went to the emergency room and they told her she bad benign vertigo. She got better with their treatments and was discharged with a prescription.

Every year, nearly 800,000 people will have a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of these strokes will be what’s called ischemic, which is when blood flow to the ...

The NHS Fast (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym is a simple way to help people identify the most common signs of a stroke: ...

A stroke occurs when oxygen supply to the brain is partially blocked. Death or paralysis can occur in minutes, if medical help is not provided, which is why strokes are a medical emergency, that ...