Featured series 
Tag: Stroke
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Health
Don’t need high cholesterol to benefit from statins
Studies find drug protects against heart disease in high-risk groups
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Health
Scorecard reveals risk of dementia, stroke
Researchers developed Brain Care Score to assess how current habits will impact future brain health
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Health
Vitamin D benefits linked to body weight
Researchers have found a correlation between vitamin D’s positive health outcomes and a person’s body mass index (BMI).
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Health
When pollinator populations are in peril
New Harvard study finds pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually.
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Health
Using AI to prevent blood clots, strokes
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to predict the risk of atrial fibrillation within the next five years based on results from electrocardiograms.
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Health
Chipping in to detect stroke
A clinical trial found that for certain patients, a small chip under the skin may help predict the likelihood of a second stroke.
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Science & Tech
Telemedicine for stroke patients improves outcomes
The first national analysis shows patients at hospitals that offer remote stroke consults fare and were more likely to survive than patients who presented at hospitals without stroke telecare.
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Health
Stroke, heart-attack cases plummet during pandemic
A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study showed dramatic drops in hospital visits for heart attacks and stroke, which likely led to uncounted deaths at home during the COVID crisis. Perhaps more troubling is the potential for long-term damage to decades’ work to catch conditions in their earliest, most treatable stages.
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Health
Sleep, heart disease link leads from brain to marrow
New research from Massachusetts General Hospital traces a previously unknown pathway from poor sleep to an increase in the fatty plaques that line blood vessels in atherosclerosis, a key feature of cardiovascular disease.
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Health
Spending dips on health care for the Medicare elderly
Health care spending among the Medicare population age 65 and older has slowed dramatically since 2005, and as much as half of that reduction can be attributed to reduced spending on cardiovascular disease, a new Harvard study has found.
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Health
What’s another hour of lost sleep? For some, a hazard
An interview with Jeanne Duffy, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on links between sleep and health.
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Science & Tech
Robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients
Wyss Institute’s soft, wearable, robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients.
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Health
Cocoa for pleasure — and health?
A study by Harvard Medical School faculty members at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is exploring the health benefits of cocoa in a massive, 18,000-person study that may provide answers hinted at in smaller studies.
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Health
Alcohol and heart risk, by the minute
A study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that moderate alcohol consumption can produce a temporary increase in heart attack and stroke risk.
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Health
A strong start toward good health: Good choices
Lifestyle choices remain the best way to prevent heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and cognitive decline, panelists agreed.
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Campus & Community
Calming the working mind
Marianne Bergonzi first tried yoga when she was 50 years old. Describing the experience as life-changing, Bergonzi soon began teaching classes. “I knew I had to pass the yogic philosophy on to people who [may] never get a chance to learn the body, mind, and breath connection.”
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Health
Weighing the benefits
A report by Harvard researchers has concluded that the benefits of stopping smoking far exceed the risks from any associated weight gain.
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Arts & Culture
Best practices writ large
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…
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Health
Clot-busting technology goes straight to work
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a novel biomimetic strategy that delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood vessels, dissolving blood clots before they cause serious damage or even death.
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Health
Red meat raises red flags
A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.
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Health
Benefits of eating fish tip the scale
In a new, large-scale study from Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, researchers found no evidence that higher levels of mercury exposure were associated with higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, or total cardiovascular disease in two separate studies of U.S. adults.
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Health
Promising therapy for stroke patients
A noninvasive electric stimulation technique administered to both sides of the brain can help stroke patients who have lost motor skills in their hands and arms, according to a new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Campus & Community
Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…
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Campus & Community
New Stroke Tool May Predict Early Recurrence
Researchers have developed a tool to predict whether a patient will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke.
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Campus & Community
Risks: Leaving ‘Stroke Belt’ but Not the Dangers
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health who analyzed stroke deaths in the United States found that people who were born in the Southeast and continued to live there as adults were 34 percent more likely than other Americans to die of a stroke