The abundance of 13 proteins in your blood seems to be a strong indicator of how rapidly your brain is ageing. This suggests that blood tests could one day help people track and even boost their ...

Stroke is a serious medical emergency that happens when your blood supply to the brain gets disrupted—either by a blood clot or a ruptured blood vessel. They cause significant damage to the brain, ...

To think, act, and feel in any way, your brain requires access to large amounts of consistent energy. For most of us, that energy comes in the form of blood sugar (glucose), which is transported ...

A nurse has revealed eight “essential” steps we can all take to lower our risk of a stroke. A stroke occurs when blood supply ...

This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can injure blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to structures deep in the brain, says Dr. Ibolja Cernak, an expert on blast injuries at ...