Clot-buster Boosts Survival, Decreases Disability For Deadly Subset Of Stroke
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 09:29
in Health & Medicine
Patients who got an experimental clot-busting treatment for a particularly lethal form of stroke were not only dramatically more likely to survive but also continued to shed lingering disabilities six months later.
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