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(MedPage Today) -- The goal of the "Million Hearts" initiative is to reduce the rate of heart attacks and strokes by one million events over the next five years.

New research shows that smokers tend to have strokes close to one full decade earlier than nonsmokers.

An FDA advisory panel has voted to recommend approval of a new blood thinner to prevent strokes and dangerous blood clots in patients with the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation.

(MedPage Today) -- Aggressive medical therapy was more than twice as effective in lowering the risk of recurrent stroke or death than was stenting of narrowed intracranial arteries, a randomized trial found.

More children and young adults are having strokes in the US - with unhealthy lifestyles being a likely cause, say scientists.

The world's first clinical trial of stem cells to treat strokes is set to move to its next phase.

Apixaban may trump standard treatment in preventing strokes caused by a common heart rhythm problem called atrial fibrillation.

(MedPage Today) -- Two-year data of the PARTNER A trial confirm a higher risk of stroke in those undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using the transapical approach, according to a substudy of the trial.

(TogoRun) According to a new report, "How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region?", urgent coordinated action is needed to avoid millions of preventable strokes, which leave many patients who have atrial fibrillation both mentally and physically disabled, or dead, every year.

The experimental anti-clotting drug apixaban beat aspirin at preventing dangerous clots or strokes in people with the abnormal heart rhythm atrial fibrillation, according to final results of the so-called AVERROES trial.