Medical conditions and health habits that affect blood flow in the brain—or cerebrovascular risk factors—are associated with a subsequent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.
Older adults with cancer are nearly 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack in the year prior to their diagnosis compared with peers without a cancer diagnosis in that same time period, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.
With a state-of-the-art mobile unit and pioneering research, Weill Cornell Medicine is at the vanguard of treating stroke patients — for whom ‘time is brain’
