A compilation of recent news from the AHA and its Post-Acute Care Team, whose focus is to ensure post-acute care facilities', hospitals’ and health systems’ unique needs are national priorities.

aUPMC Stroke Institute, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA bDepartments of Neurology, Cooper University Healthcare and Cooper ...

According to GlobalData, Phase II drugs for Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA) have a 29% phase transition success ... It was also under the development of Alzheimer's disease, acute on chronic liver ...

In such cases, an inability to balance is a symptom known as ataxia. But ataxia can also be its own condition or disease. As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the ...

A surge in flu cases across Scotland has placed health services in the country under "acute pressure", Public Health Scotland (PHS) has warned. Data from PHS showed 1,163 people were hospitalised ...

An acute stroke, like most forms of stroke, starts suddenly and worsens rapidly. Some strokes may be preceded by a transient ischemic attack (TIA), a temporary stroke that resolves before causing any ...

It encompasses Miller-Fisher syndrome (MFS), Guillain-Barré syndrome with ophthalmoplegia, Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis, and acute ophthalmoplegia without ataxia (AO). The etiology is closely ...

TP is a sporadic, seasonal, rural disorder in which acute ataxia often develops five to six days following a history of walking in grass or low brush, followed by ascending flaccid paralysis.

Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is a severe lung-related complication of sickle cell disease that affects both children and adults. Sickle cell disease (SCD) or anemia is an inherited blood disorder that ...