“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.

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has developed a unique brain-computer interface (BCI) that brings the world one step closer to mind-controlled robots. Here ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Doctors believe the stroke was caused by a previous hockey hit to the neck that fractured a vertebra and eventually triggered a blood clot to his brain stem. “When it first happened, we didn’t ...

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.