Neuravi has completed a Series B financing of €19m (US$21m) to advance the company’s minimally invasive thrombectomy device for acute ischaemic stroke, the EmboTrap revascularization device. The round was led by European private equity firm Life Sciences Partners (LSP), with participation from returning Series A investors Fountain Healthcare Partners, Delta Partners and the Western Development Commission.
National Institutes of Health director Francis S Collins has announced the selection of Walter J Koroshetz, as the Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He has served as acting director of the NINDS since October 2014.
Elekta has CE marked its Leksell Gamma Knife Icon precision radiosurgery system, making this latest generation Leksell Gamma Knife platform available in the European market.
Major advancements in stroke treatment occurred this year: the standard of care has changed and we are now faced with the challenge to modify the chain of survival of stroke patients. Stroke patients have to reach comprehensive stroke centres (CSC) particularly if they are suspect to have an acute large vessel occlusion. This commentary presents the top 10 reasons why comprehensive stroke centres should become patient destination.
In a Policy View published in The Lancet Neurology journal, a group of leading experts on the epidemiology of dementia state that the number of people with dementia—both new cases and total numbers with the disease—in some Western European countries is stabilising despite population ageing, in direct contrast to the “dementia epidemic” reported in some recent studies.
A new study finds that Cefaly, the first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device specifically authorised for use prior to the onset of migraine pain, provides relief for 81% of migraine sufferers who use it.
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has completed enrolment in its ongoing randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial of NurOwn in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The targeted enrolment of 48 subjects has been achieved.
Five men with complete motor paralysis were able to voluntarily generate step-like movements thanks to a new strategy that non-invasively delivers electrical stimulation to their spinal cords, according to a new study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Advice to use the anti-clotting drug alteplase more than three hours after an acute stroke should be re-evaluated, say researchers writing in The BMJ this week.
In an in vitro stroke model comparison, the use of the Cover accessory device (Lazarus Effect) in conjunction with a stent retriever resulted in higher successful recanalisation rates, no embolic events and proved to be more effective than the use of a conventional guide catheter or a balloon guide catheter.
European Medical Center (GEMC) is the first institution among private clinical groups to open the clinic of neurology and neurosurgery as part of its multifunctional hospital in Moscow.
Mobile Stroke Treatment Units—specialised emergency rooms on wheels—are saving critical minutes in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients, according to two new studies presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2015 (Nashville, USA, 11–13 February, 2015).
One in four acute ischaemic stroke patients treated with a time-dependent clot-busting drug were quickly transferred from an emergency department or smaller community hospital to a certified stroke centre, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2015 (Nashville, USA, 11–13 February, 2015). This study will also be published simultaneously in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke.
Drinking more than two alcoholic beverages daily in middle-age may raise your stroke risk more than traditional factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
According to a recent retrospective review, the transradial approach to mechanical embolectomy is a valid approach for the endovascular treatment of acute ischaemic stroke.
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