A man who thought he had just “slept awkwardly” discovered he had suffered a stroke due to his £200 a month smoking addiction ...

It was about 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning when Amanda Tanner and her husband were suddenly jolted out of sleep by their dog. Axel, a 1-year-old border collie the family had rescued, jumped on their ...

It was a typical Monday afternoon when my sister-in-law called me and in a hurried voice said, “Dad fell.” After a few minutes of frantic discussion and determining that my wise sister-in-law had ...

When Andrew Marr suffered a stroke back in 2013, his wife was told he might not make it. The presenter, 66, was left temporarily paralysed on his left side and was forced to take eight months off work ...

A 42-year-old man suffered a mini stroke after years of heavy smoking, initially mistaking symptoms for sleeping awkwardly.

WASHINGTON – A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of ...

Strokes that occur on the right side of the brain go undiagnosed more often than left brain strokes, said a new study. Since the left side of the brain controls coordination and language, left-brain ...

Strokes occur when a vessel that’s carrying blood to the brain is obstructed or ruptures, according to the American Stroke Association. When this happens, the brain cannot get the blood and oxygen it ...

A family in Texas was thrilled to adopt a border collie named Axel from an animal rescue. And after the dog alerted Amanda Tanner and her husband that their son, Gabriel, was having a stroke, they ...