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Hosni Mubarak's lawyer said the ousted Egyptian president has suffered a stroke and is in a coma. However, a doctor at the hospital where Mubarak has been held under arrest denied the report.

Harold Camping, the radio preacher who incorrectly predicted that the Rapture would happen last month, has reportedly been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

One in seven strokes happens at night, and sufferers may not get medicine that could prevent brain damage, suggests a new study.

Drinking coffee appears to offer protection against stroke, a major study of women out Thursday concludes.

Doctors say a TV reporter who lapsed into gibberish during a live shot outside the Grammys suffered a migraine, not a stroke....

People who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, found a new study that followed 2,500 New Yorkers for nine years.

The death rate from cardiovascular disease in the United States has declined 28% since the late 1990s, but heart disease and stroke still account ...

Final data from a new study showed that the diet drug Meridia increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes in patients who already have heart disease, but offered only moderate weight loss.

Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84.

He had the signature red bandana and cowboy hat and the old chest-pump move. The set list rocked, and the sell-out crowd went wild.