Stroke: Transcranial laser therapy for stroke fails futility analysis

Nature Reviews Neurology 10, 611 (2014). doi:10.1038/nrneurol.2014.200 A phase III trial of transcranial laser therapy has been discontinued after an interim analysis found no effect of laser therapy on patients' disability after ischaemic stroke. The transcranial laser device used in the trial was purported to provide energy to hypoxic mitochondria via near-infrared
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