Often when we see the terms ''algorithms" and "artificial intelligence" they are framed in negative or alarming light. It’s the social media algorithms, we’re told, that keep us perpetually engaged — ...

An algorithm developed by faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) can help physicians outside of major stroke treatment centers assess whether a patient ...

Research from Florida International University’s College of Business (FIU Business) found that a machine learning (ML) algorithm that uses hospital data and social determinants of health data can help ...

If patients with clot-caused strokes obtain medical care more than 4½ hours after their symptoms are noticed, it is too late to receive the standard clot-busting medication alteplase. However, in this ...

As we get older, we’re all at increased risk for stroke, a “brain attack” that occurs when a blood clot travels to the brain (ischemic stroke) or a blood vessel in the brain bursts (hemorrhagic stroke ...

Trials have evaluated the use of clopidogrel and aspirin to prevent stroke after an ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). In a previous trial, ticagrelor was not better than aspirin in ...

The Columbus Division of Fire (CFD), in partnership with OhioHealth, Mount Carmel Health System and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, launched the Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit (MSTU) at ...

The first international trial of an unproven stroke treatment available in the U.S. has concluded that, while harmless, "perispinal" etanercept—injected into the spinal area—is no more effective than ...

When Cheryl Hamrick woke up in the middle of the night, she didn’t know what time it was. It was the awful pain radiating from the right side of the back of her head that was at the forefront of her ...