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And now FASTER: Face, Arm, Speech, Time, Eyes, React
"FASTER -- Face, Arm, Speech, Time, Eyes, React -- may be a better acronym for the public campaign," said Prof. Ashok Handa, senior author of the British Journal of Surgery study. The study included 150 patients with a confirmed transient ischaemic attack or minor...

Hope for reversing stroke-induced long-term disability
A new hope for reversing stroke-induced long-term disability emerges thanks to the novel approach in a USC-led study. A human protein combined with stem cell therapy has been found to repair stroke damage to the brain, according to a new USC-led study on mice...

SAFE Regional Meetings in 2016
In 2016, SAFE had four regional meetings. The first was the one for South European countries, held in Athens, Greece on 1st June 2016. The next one was in Skopje, attended mostly by SSO representatives from Balkan countries and colleagues from UK, Nederland and...

European Stroke Journal: September’s issue available online
September's issue of European Stroke Journal (ESJ) is now available. The ESJ is the official publication of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), a fully peer-reviewed journal, launched in 2016 covering clinical stroke research from all fields. Published research...

Anemic adults may have a higher risk of death after stroke
Anemia, a lack of red blood cells, may be linked to a higher risk of death in older adults who have had a stroke, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke...