The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive ... results of the quality improvement initiative and guide further interventions, NIHSS assessment had ...

Consistent use of a standardized assessment tool designed for stroke patients assists in the achievement of these goals. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated ...

Strokes are treatable, so it is important to be able to recognize a stroke so that you can get the right emergency treatment as quickly as possible. If you see or experience any of the following ...

The NIH has had its missteps — opaque grant review processes, funding imbalances and institutional inertia. But this is not ...

Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...

In December, all of them were reassigned to other offices within the NIH in advance of the second Trump administration, which was expected to dismantle the office. The employees were given little ...

Background and Purpose: The 12-item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SSQOL), a shortened version of the original SSQOL, was recently developed in a mixed cerebrovascular disorders population ...

NIH gives 50,000 competitive grants to more than ... Despite progress, deaths from heart disease and stroke are still rising, with more than 400,000 women dying every year. Need a break?

Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...

The NIH — like most organizations funding scientific research — pays for the direct cost of research, like researchers’ salaries, and indirect costs, like space, equipment, utilities ...

In effect, I would most likely not be alive today to write this piece, had it not been for enhanced technology able to detect and characterize tiny tumors, thanks to NIH. Three weeks later ...

NIH-funded research has driven a 33% decline in cancer deaths, helped cut heart disease deaths by 68% and revolutionized stroke care with ... has failed to do at scale. Scientists must stop ...