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With all the promising research that has been coming out lately on stroke, it's more important than ever that you and your doctor know what to do before you or a loved one is affected. Stroke occurs when part of the brain's blood supply gets cut off. Three years ago, researchers showed that physicians can, in many cases, prevent death or permanent disability from stroke if they give the victims a drug called TPA within three hours of the first symptoms. Last week investigators using another drug therapy proved that the treatment window can be stretched...
...smoker? Overweight? Over age 55? Do you have diabetes? Heart disease? High blood pressure? If so, you face a higher risk of suffering a stroke. Save yourself and your family a lot of grief by identifying now which hospitals in your area are best suited to treating stroke. And learn the warning signs: sudden weakness, dizziness or falls; numbness or paralysis (especially on just one side) of the face, arm or leg; difficulty speaking; sudden dimming or loss of vision...
Enter an experimental drug called recombinant pro-urokinase. In a clinical trial of 180 patients presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association last Thursday, researchers reported that 40% of patients who received the drug within six hours of the start of their stroke made a dramatic recovery, in contrast to 25% in the control group. Dr. Anthony Furlan, a stroke specialist at the Cleveland Clinic who led the study, says the recovered patients "could return to work, take care of their finances, drive...
...stroke for sport, but will have nothing to do with the UT Montblanc-posing scene, consider the FM 'It' Pen 1999, the Muji...
...reports out last week. In one, heart-attack patients who were admitted to teaching hospitals had 15% lower odds of dying within a month of treatment, compared with patients hospitalized at nonacademic institutions. A second report had the same message: it found that patients with congestive heart failure, stroke or hip fracture significantly improved their chances of surviving at least a year if treated at a teaching hospital...