by Sue Robbins | May 17, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Scientists are finding that even after depression eases, the risk of stroke can remain high. “We thought that once people’s depressive symptoms got better their stroke risk would go back down to the same as somebody who’d never been depressed,”...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 8, 2015 | Headache Drugs
In a 3-year study of 5,000 patients with moderate or severe depression, doctors from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City found that those treated with antidepressants appeared to have lower rates of death, coronary artery disease and...
by Sue Robbins | Jan 13, 2015 | Headache Drugs
For many, taking a daily aspirin to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke is a common practice. A new study, however, has found that 11% of them should not be doing so. Today, an article written by Nicholas Bakalar of the New York Times reports on the...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 11, 2014 | Headache Drugs
The American Heart Association has published a statement which says there may be an association between stroke and therapy involving neck manipulation, though they were not able to confirm whether a neck manipulation causes stroke or not. Neck manipulation has been...
by Sue Robbins | Jul 30, 2013 | Headache Drugs
While adhering to a Mediterranean-style diet has previously been linked to lower risk of heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndrome, new evidence suggests it’s also associated with less damage to small blood vessels in the brain. Hannah Gardener, ScD, of the...
