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Life-saving clot-busting drugs more likely to be administered in hospitals with neurology residency programs
Stroke patients treated at hospitals with neurology residency programs are significantly more likely to get life-saving clot-busting drugs than those seen at other teaching or non-teaching hospitals, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. The findings, described online in the journal Neurology, suggest that patients at academic medical centers with neurology residency programs likely benefit from having stroke specialists on hand 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news

One-year data from global atrial fibrillation (AF) registry show antithrombotic agents not optimally used to prevent stroke
One-year outcomes data from the first cohort of the Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD (GARFIELD), an innovative, independent academic research initiative, provide insights into the elevated stroke risk among subpopulations of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The findings, from eight abstracts presented this week at the ESC Congress 2013, collectively show that anticoagulant therapy - which is known to significantly lower stroke risk in AF patients - is consistently under-utilised among those at-risk AF patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news