While that NIH trial was occurring, another shift was taking place: drugs to prevent stroke improved and stroke rates fell.
Now some doctors are flagging the potential dangers of new implantable gadgets to treat back pain, prevent stroke and soothe severe heartburn.
Clinicians should be aware of the elevated stroke risk in older women with AF, and new strategies should be applied to effectively prevent stroke equally in men and women.
The device makers' effort is running into a heated debate among physicians over whether drug therapies to prevent stroke have surpassed stents or carotid artery surgery as the best treatment for many patients with artery blockage in the neck.
The study aimed to tell if treating them could prevent a stroke later in life.
The problem is expected to be more acute in sprawling so-called mega-cities in poor countries, which have more difficulty informing people about how to prevent heat stroke and where infrastructure is lacking.
The herbal supplement ginkgo biloba might be able to prevent some of the damage caused by a stroke, scientists report.
LONDON, England -- A Australian electrical engineer is developing a portable brain scanner that could help prevent people from suffering brain damage after they have a stroke.
It may be possible to use a drug to prevent some of the lasting and crippling damage caused by a stroke, according to doctors in the US and Canada.
The object was to test whether treating patients early and aggressively with a cholesterol-lowering drug would prevent them from having a second heart attack, having a stroke, returning to the hospital or dying.
And I think that treatment for cancer or treatment for heart disease or stroke or many of the diseases that a healthy lifestyle can either prevent or delay is very time consuming and painful and costly.
Low-dose aspirin is already recommended to cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, but there are no national guidelines on who should consider taking it to prevent cancer, or how much to take.
In December, Pfizer said that a government-funded study testing whether Celebrex could prevent colon polyps instead showed that long-term use of Celebrex doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke.
But Dr Kirkham said that vaccinating children to prevent this was not thought to be a viable option, as the vaccine had also been linked to stroke in certain small groups of children.
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