New research uncovers how the brain, immune system, and nervous system contribute to heart attack damage, revealing three nodes that could be targeted with new therapeutics.

BERLIN, Germany—Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are more likely than similar individuals without the arrhythmia to have brain infarcts detected on MRI, an analysis of the Swiss-AF cohort study ...

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a condition where protein (called amyloid) builds up in the brain, making blood vessels weak. People with CAA are four times more likely to develop dementia within ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation show more brain lesions and lower cognitive function. Discover how AF directly affects the ...

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

South Korea’s MFDS gave regulatory clearance to SK Inc. C&C’s artificial intelligence (AI) solution to diagnose cerebral infarction called Medical Insight+ Brain Infarct on Feb. 22, as a class III ...

A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency stroke care, potentially creating incentives that may discourage hospitals ...

Factor XIa inhibitor milvexian did not provide meaningful secondary prevention over dual antiplatelet therapy for stroke survivors, the phase II trial AXIOMATIC-SSP found. In patients with recent ...