Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. The National Institutes of Health on Friday announced six acting directors to ...

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A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff, to develop and implement a plan to improve the completion rate, and to evaluate progress as interventions were ...

A thrombotic stroke occurs when a blood clot, also called a thrombus, blocks blood flow through the brain artery in which it formed. The clot can disrupt oxygen delivery to the brain, causing ...

The Vatican also announced the cause of death was a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the ...

A doctor looks at PET brain scans at Banner Alzheimers Institute in Phoenix on Aug. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt York, File) (NewsNation) — Can you have a stroke without knowing? The short answer is yes.

VATICAN CITY — On his last day — Easter, the holiest on the Christian calendar — Pope Francis doubled down on the defining theme of his papacy: mercy. After a private audience with Vice ...

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The U.S. DOGE Service is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal health-care grants, requiring government officials to manually review and approve previously routine payments — and ...