Eight years ago, at the age of 53, Jeff Miller woke up, got out of bed and fell to the floor. Although he was having trouble seeing, he managed to get down the stairs to the first floor of his home ...

A finger-prick blood test to diagnose the deadliest form of stroke might be twice as effective at spotting it than using a patient’s symptoms alone. The test, which works similarly to a lateral flow ...

The difference between life and death, between full recovery and permanent disability, often comes down to a matter of minutes when someone experiences a stroke. This medical emergency creates a race ...

A carotid endarterectomy involves making an incision in the neck, opening the carotid artery and physically removing the plaque build-up before the artery is stitched closed, often with a patch to ...

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx opened up during his Netflix special that the mysterious illness he suffered last year was a brain bleed. The young, healthy actor was surprised he experienced a stroke, but ...

Samantha Ballas, of Syracuse, is a fourth-year medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Rural Scholars Program. She is a NYSARH Research and Policy Fellow in the 2025 cohort. She is ...

Loan, 22, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a cerebral arteriovenous malformation and was saved by timely emergency intervention by doctors.

After years of untreated high blood pressure, Lynn Chia suffered a life-altering stroke at 37 that left her unable to walk, ...