“The perception is that the only people who have strokes are older people. You know, 60, 70, 80, 90. However, about 18 percent of strokes happen in young people, and this percentage is rising,” Dr.

Persistent hiccups can be the most noticeable and bothersome symptom of a small stroke in the brainstem. The other symptoms of this type of brainstem stroke, called Wallenberg syndrome, include ...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), also known as emotional lability, reflex crying, and involuntary emotional expression disorder, is more common following a brainstem stroke. In PBA, there is a disconnect ...

A “kidney swap” occurs when a living donor is incompatible with his or her recipient but matches another person on the wait list, resulting in two live donor transplants ...

An Aussie mum and leading doctor have warned parents to watch out for rarely seen symptoms after a little girl suffered a ...

Jack Smiley got to play competitive hockey again, three years after he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed on his right side.

ONE in ten women suffer agonising pain from endometriosis but it is still a largely unknown condition. It causes cells from ...

The vagus nerve is a long, branching and meandering nerve that serves as an information superhighway. It is the longest and most complex of the 12 cranial nerves.