The NeurologyLive® stroke clinical focus page serves as a resource for updates and information related to the clinical care and management of stroke and cerebrovascular disease, featuring news, podcasts, and videos about the latest FDA actions, clinical guideline updates, interviews with physicians, and study and clinical trial findings. The page includes information on stroke, large vessel occlusion, subcranial hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, and more.
August 20th 2025
At AHS 2025, Elizabeth Seng, PhD, professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, presented findings from a study showing that migraine was associated with increased odds of ischemic stroke in veterans.
Field-Based Stroke Severity Triage Significantly Improves Times to Endovascular Treatment for LVO
July 29th 2022In addition to reduced times to treatment, implementation of field stroke triage led to significantly lower rates of disability for both the entire cohort and those independent at baseline among those with large vessel occlusions.
Genetic Stroke Risk May Be Offset by Optimal Cardiovascular Health
July 25th 2022Those with an optimal Life's Simple 7 score had roughly a 30% to 43% lower lifetime stroke risk than those with an inadequate Life's Simple 7 categorization, corresponding to almost 6 additional years of stroke-free life.
Increased Self-Managed Digital Application Use Results in Poststroke Benefits
July 22nd 2022For most of the individuals assessed, the rate of improvement was modulated by practice frequency, with significantly greater improvement over time in those who practice 3 to 5 days per week than those who completed 1 day of sessions per week.
FDA Places Clinical Hold on Phase 2/3 ReMEDy2 Trial of DM199 in Acute Ischemic Stroke
July 9th 2022After 3 instances of clinically significant, transient hypotension—which resolved after treatment halt—recruitment for the trial of the investigational recombinant KLK1 tissue protein has been paused.
NeurologyLive® Top Expert Interviews: June 2022
July 7th 2022Expert clinicians offer their insight on the sleep disorder landscape, the state of mental health in pediatric migraine, an inaugural movement disorders congress, a novel stroke rehabilitation tool, and psychedelics in cluster headache.
Using Primseq to Simplify the Complexities of Rehabilitation Intervention Dosing: Heidi Schambra, MD
June 26th 2022The associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone discussed the current methods of prescribing rehabilitation and why a new digital tool can improve them going forward. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]