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4 stories tagged "stroke"
The HeartMate 3 Won Its Market on a Low Stroke Count. The Neurologic Events It Left Off Are Just as Common.
Eight percent of HeartMate 3 patients have a stroke. Another 8 percent have a seizure, a transient ischemic attack, or a brain bleed its headline safety score never tallied, and two-year survival in those patients runs as low as 45 percent.
Brain & AgingFor Decades They Treated This Stroke Like a Clog. The Arteries Were Actually Too Wide.
People with widened brain arteries were four times more likely to have had a lacunar stroke, the type doctors have treated for decades as if it were a clog.
Brain & AgingYour Brain Files Speech Where You'd Least Expect: In Hearing and Touch, Not the Motor Cortex
A TMS study from McGill and Yale finds that newly learned speech is stored in the brain's hearing and touch regions, not the motor cortex long assumed to run the show.
Brain & AgingA 14-Patient Hand-Exoskeleton Study Lands in Science Advances, With a Headline That Outruns the Data
A Vienna-led team published a 14-patient feasibility study of a wearable hand exoskeleton with closed-loop electrical stimulation. The mechanism is genuinely novel; the headline is doing work the data cannot.