Be Well: Understanding Strokes and How Doctors Work to Reverse Their Effects
Strokes have become the leading cause of disability among Americans and the fourth leading cause of death. With so many people impacted by the complication, new methods of treatment have emerged that look to mitigate deaths and reverse symptoms and signs of stroke.
The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions.
More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that they accused of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.
