According to PEOPLE, 41-year-old Carissa Klundt of Las Vegas claims she was left with a torn artery in her neck after a ...

Las Vegas mom of three Carissa Klundt ended up in the ICU and was bedridden for weeks after a chiropractic injury.

This week's topics include stroke after cervical artery dissection, reducing clot formation in those with advanced cancer, USPSTF on breastfeeding, and a polygenic risk score for prostate cancer.

There is a five-fold increase in U.S. hospitalizations for cervical artery dissection over a 15-year period. Cervical artery dissection, a tear in an artery that supplies blood to the brain ...

Strokes caused by an artery tear are landing five times as many Americans in the hospital these days, a new study says. Cervical artery dissection involves a small tear in the inner lining of an ...

For the study, researchers reviewed 15 years of U.S. health data to identify 125,102 people hospitalized for cervical artery dissection. Participants had an average age of 51, and just over half ...

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five ...

The introduction of the Pap smear reduced cervical cancer mortality by more than 70 percent in the 20th century, so from that perspective, she said, “the Pap smear is unquestionably a win.” ...

A notable limitation of this work is that it did not focus on strokes due to vertebral artery dissections that run through the transverse foramina of the cervical vertebrae. More recently ...

Risk for stroke after cervical artery dissection was similar with an anticoagulation vs. antiplatelet treatment strategy. Switching to antiplatelet therapy after 30 days may lower major bleeding risk.