The term “ministroke” can be a bit of a head-scratcher: How can there be a tiny form of a full-blown medical emergency? Thanks to the misleading modifier, it’s often perceived as something you don’t ...

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

Until now, the common perception has been that strokes or brain attacks only affect elderly people, but due to changing lifestyles and increasing risk factors, this disease is now rapidly affecting ...

That sudden headache you brushed off as stress. The dizziness you blamed on not eating enough. The confusion you attributed to being overwhelmed at work. For Black women, these seemingly minor ...

Medical professionals are discovering that the skin can serve as an early warning system for stroke risk, displaying subtle changes months or even years before a cerebrovascular event occurs. These ...

(CNN) — One in six deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States is due to stroke, and over 100 million people worldwide have had a stroke, which is a leading cause of serious long-term ...

Stroke can happen to anyone, at any age and at any time. The number of strokes among younger adults under 55 is rising worldwide, and every day in the UK around 240 people experience the traumatic and ...

While strokes are widely recognized as a major cause of long-term disability in the United States, their quieter cousin, the mini stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA), often flies under the ...

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 ...