About 40 percent of us will faint at least once in our lives, and about 10 percent of those cases will wind up in the emergency room. However, some fainting patients may have underlying ...

Also known as the "common faint," vasovagal syncope (pronounced vay-zoh-Vay-gul Sing-kuh-pee) results from an abnormal circulatory reflex and could be caused by a number of factors: Environment: The ...

You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can ...

Vasovagal syncope is a condition of emerging importance in older patients. The disease pattern of VVS in older age groups appears to differ from that of younger subjects. Treatment options are limited ...

Older woman develops recurrent syncope soon after starting acamprosate; extensive cardiac and neurologic evaluation is negative and symptoms resolve after discontinuation.

Fainting (known medically as syncope) is a sudden loss of consciousness and collapse due to temporary lack of blood flow to the brain. Fainting is always an emergency, but the most common conditions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where is a fainting couch when you need one? Michael C. Gray/From www.shutterstock.com Over one million Americans faint every year ...