Neuroscience
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- Noise Increases The Risk Of Having A Heart Attack
Too much noise, such as the sound of passing traffic, can increase the risk of heart attack in men by 50 per cent and in women by up to threefold. That’s according to a team of German researchers who interviewed 4,115 hospital inpatients, about half...
- Stroke And Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tpa) Treatment
From The Globe and Mail: Stroke drug grossly underused, experts say The Globe and Mail 07 February 2005 [snip] TPA remains the sole drug approved for strokes. Yet only about 3 per cent of victims get it. Usually that's because they don't...
- Sickle Cell Clinical Study Halted
Risk of Strokes Halts Sickle Cell Study By Daniel Yee Associated Press The Washington Post Monday, December 6, 2004; Page A02 ATLANTA, Dec. 5 -- A study aimed at determining whether some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood...
- Abstract Of The Day: Stroke And Cognition
VK Srikanth et al. Progressive dementia after first-ever stroke: A community-based follow-up study. Neurology 2004; 63:785-792. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Geoffrey A. Donnan, Director, National Stroke Research Institute, Neurosciences...
- Outcome Of Fda Meeting About Exanta
The Associated Press reported this evening about today's FDA meeting (see yesterday's post: Forthcoming Meeting...): FDA Panel Urges More Studies of Stroke Med By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (copyright) Filed at 8:51 p.m. ET WILMINGTON, Del....
Neuroscience
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
From the BBC:
Test 'identifies new stroke risk'[ ... Read the full article ... ]
Doctors have developed a simple checklist to show if patients who have had a mini-stroke are at immediate risk of a more serious attack.
The Oxford University team, writing in the Lancet, said it could help identify those needing emergency treatment.
It looks at age, blood pressure, symptoms and how long the mini-stroke, or transient ischemic attack, lasted.
UK guidelines say all such patients should be checked within seven days, but many wait at least two weeks.
The researchers say their guide could be used to help identify the 10% of patients who are at risk of having a major stroke within seven days of a mini-stroke.
Giving this group blood-thinning drugs or other treatments to reduce their blood pressure or cholesterol can cut their risk of further attacks.
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- Noise Increases The Risk Of Having A Heart Attack
Too much noise, such as the sound of passing traffic, can increase the risk of heart attack in men by 50 per cent and in women by up to threefold. That’s according to a team of German researchers who interviewed 4,115 hospital inpatients, about half...
- Stroke And Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tpa) Treatment
From The Globe and Mail: Stroke drug grossly underused, experts say The Globe and Mail 07 February 2005 [snip] TPA remains the sole drug approved for strokes. Yet only about 3 per cent of victims get it. Usually that's because they don't...
- Sickle Cell Clinical Study Halted
Risk of Strokes Halts Sickle Cell Study By Daniel Yee Associated Press The Washington Post Monday, December 6, 2004; Page A02 ATLANTA, Dec. 5 -- A study aimed at determining whether some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood...
- Abstract Of The Day: Stroke And Cognition
VK Srikanth et al. Progressive dementia after first-ever stroke: A community-based follow-up study. Neurology 2004; 63:785-792. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Geoffrey A. Donnan, Director, National Stroke Research Institute, Neurosciences...
- Outcome Of Fda Meeting About Exanta
The Associated Press reported this evening about today's FDA meeting (see yesterday's post: Forthcoming Meeting...): FDA Panel Urges More Studies of Stroke Med By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (copyright) Filed at 8:51 p.m. ET WILMINGTON, Del....