POSTS TAGGED AS Stroke

Stem Cell Trial for Stroke

Though the patient base is small (only a half dozen so far) neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow in [MORE]

Twenty-Eight SNPs of Hypertension

In a European consortium’s study of hypertension, initially involving 70k people, with 133k more for validation, researchers identified 28 [MORE]

NovaVision’s Non-Invasive Light Therapy Helping Stroke Survivors

In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month,  NovaVision.com offers inspirational stroke survivor stories of vision recovery through the use of [MORE]

Automated, Portable Cardio Imaging Device

Cardio Health Station
Panasonic’s “CardioHealth” Station uses ultrasound to produce a high resolution, real time image of a patient’s coronary [MORE]

Matching Trial Patients to Typical Sufferers

Here’s a quandary: Medicare pays for arterial stenting when patients have stroke symptoms, but not all patients who receive [MORE]

Implantable Brain Prosthetic

eberhard Fetz, PhD
Stroke victims who lose their speech ability, but eventually regain it, illustrate the brain’s plasticity in recovering [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s “AtriClip”

Among the risks to atrial fibrillation patients is the possibility that blood will thicken and clot in the heart’s [MORE]

Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke Approved

Last month, The Financial Times reported that the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee has approved the world’s first stem [MORE]

Myomo Neuro-Robot

Myomo Inc. (Boston) takes its name from the Latin prefix, myo, meaning muscle.  Rightly so, as Myomo is a [MORE]

Ultrasound Clot Busting

Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Stroke
With an apparatus resembling a Gamma Knife, University of California, San Diego professor Thilo Hoelscher [MORE]

Teleneurology

Telemedicine
The May 1, 2009 issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association has an article by Lee H. [MORE]

Non-Invasive Brain Blood Flow Monitor

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Comprehensive Neuroscience Center recently demonstrated a non-invasive portable monitor that measures brain blood flow [MORE]