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Artificial intelligence to improve outcome for stroke patients • Apr. 24, 2025, 6:33 AM ET (BBC)

Sex differences in carotid artery plaques and stroke symptoms revealed in new study • Apr. 12, 2025, 7:23 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

Therapy garden at King's Lynn hospital will help stroke patients • Apr. 10, 2025, 8:30 AM ET (BBC)

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant • Mar. 31, 2025, 5:27 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As	apoplexy • cerebrovascular accident • cerebral vascular accident • cerebral hemorrhage

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