When news of a respiratory illness spreading through China first broke, Dr. S. Andrew Josephson — chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco — didn’t anticipate that his ...

Q: When my cousin developed dizziness and nausea she went to the emergency room and they told her she bad benign vertigo. She got better with their treatments and was discharged with a prescription.

Every year, nearly 800,000 people will have a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of these strokes will be what’s called ischemic, which is when blood flow to the ...

A patient with blink-triggered visual tilt shows a cortical lesion that initially mimicked a peripheral vestibular disorder.

The classic and lesser-known symptoms of strokes have been highlighted in a new report from the American Heart Association (AHA). An acute stroke, or "brain attack," is when a blood vessel supplying ...

Men and women may be equal, but our bodies don’t always react to danger the same way. Strokes especially don’t play fair.

Bethany Fonseca had a migraine one morning in October 2011. She kept dropping things, like her hair dryer and apartment keys, because her arm “felt like a limp noodle.” Then the Jacksonville, Florida, ...

A stroke occurs when oxygen supply to the brain is partially blocked. Death or paralysis can occur in minutes, if medical help is not provided, which is why strokes are a medical emergency, that ...