Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS ... expressive aphasia and asymptomatic chronic subdural hygroma, which worsened ...

Comprehensive assessments were conducted using tools such as the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). A month into the study, specifically on day ...

Similarly, disabling syndromes may occur in the setting of distal MCA occlusions causing severe aphasia or hemiplegia. Furthermore, PCA occlusion could present with low NIHSS but with potentially life ...

Aphasia, a deficit in language ... 0000000000000024 National Institutes of Health. NIH Stroke Scale International. Dr. Moawad is a neurologist and expert in brain health. She regularly writes and ...

Not to B-negative, but your blood type could offer a clue to your risk of having a stroke before 60. “The number of people with early strokes is rising,” said Dr. Steven J. Kittner, co ...

When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer over Thanksgiving weekend, I took a crash course in relearning all about staging, treatment, management and prognosis. It’s an understatement to say ...

WASHINGTON — Days after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, the agency’s former director warned that two signature programs — an initiative to decipher how the brain works, and ...

Senators from both parties on Wednesday pressed Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, about whether he supported the agency’s plan to slash the ...

In an unprecedented move, the National Institutes of Health is abruptly terminating millions of dollars in research awards to scientists in Massachusetts and around the country, citing the Trump ...

A Biden-appointed judge extended a temporary restraining order Friday against the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health research funding. The ruling from U.S. District ...