The couple were taken from their home in Afghanistan on Feb. 1, and were being held in a maximum security prison.

After a mild stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), people who spend more time in bed sleeping or trying to sleep may be more likely to have lower scores on tests of thinking and memory skills ...

Each year in the United States 200,000 500,00bstract: 500,000 people have a transient ischemic attack (TIA). These episodes of brief neurologic deficits were thought to be fairly benign, but this ...

The reason you should reconsider is that the alternative (doing nothing) is worse. Your risk of having a blood clot, ...

China: A new study published in Nature and Science of Sleep has found that patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack ...

While strokes are widely recognized as a major cause of long-term disability in the United States, their quieter cousin, the ...

I am an 83-year-old man. Except for blood pressure medication, I’ve never had any heart-related health issues. Earlier this ...

It may be that patients have better control of cerebrovascular risk factors after the event, protecting against future ...

Kirsty Woodhouse, 35, told Newsweek about the terrifying ordeal: "I was so scared in case I wasn't going to make it." ...

After CT and MRI scans, medics believed it was a transient ischemic attack (TIA), sometimes called a "ministroke." It is different from major types of stroke. Blood flow to the brain is blocked for ...

A Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), often called a mini-stroke, happens when stroke-like symptoms appear but then go away ...