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Numbness – red flag symptoms

Red flag symptoms associated with numbness, possible causes and how to approach history taking and e...

Viewpoint: How GPs can support patients after a stroke

GPs are in a unique position to help people adjust and move on with their lives as much as they can ...

Stroke: coloured PET scan of a stroke patient's brain (Photo: Science Photo Library)

Stroke risk doubled in patients with depression, GPs warned

GPs should monitor stroke risk in patients with recurring depression even if they no longer have sym...

Viewpoint: Statins in ischaemic stroke prevention

Professor Peter Sever and Professor Neil Poulter discuss the role of statins in stroke prevention....

Clinical Review: Stroke - epidemiology, diagnosis and management

Stroke is a common, serious and treatable condition. In the past 20 years, there have been major adv...

Developing stroke services

Dr Raj Thakkar discusses the process for starting up a new quality scheme for managing the burden of...

Incidental ischaemic changes on MRI

What to do when ischaemic brain changes are found. By Mr Timothy Biggs, Dr Sarah Pickering and Mr Ma...

Secondary prevention of stroke

Dr Ajay Bhalla compares methods for preventing recurrence and the evidence of risk reduction....

Without brain imaging, such as CT scanning, it is impossible to determine whether a stroke is ischaemic or haemorrhagic (above) (Photograph: Dr Jonathan Birns)

Clinical Review: Stroke

By Dr Jonathan Birns, consultant in stroke medicine, geriatrics and general medicine, Guy's and St T...

The mainstays of treatment after ischaemic stroke is aspirin or heparin (Photograph: SPL)

Paediatric Medicine - Childhood stroke

Dr Andrew Mallick and Dr Finbar O'Callaghan discuss the causes and impact of stroke in paediatric pa...

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