Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Besides banishing the chocolate chub, MAC aerobics can ward off the post-Valentine's emotional doldrums as well. McDonough is a firm believer in the mental benefits of exercise, and explains that "exercise releases endorphins in the brain" that are often cited as the source of an exercise high. "I'm no medical authority, but the mental aspect of exercise is huge. The endorphins put you in a good mood." But what's better, a chocolate rush or an endorphine high...
There are risks. Recombinant pro-urokinase, like TPA, increases the chances of dangerous bleeding in the brain. And the treatment requires a doctor with great skill at threading a catheter into the brain...
Strokes afflict 600,000 Americans each year. In 80% of cases the culprit is some kind of clot that obstructs the flow of blood through an artery. But for a variety of reasons, blood-starved brain cells don't die right away. If the offending clot is broken up quickly enough, normal blood flow is restored and the brain is spared...
...reason the drug works so well is that doctors inject it into a catheter, which they thread through the arteries of the brain to deliver treatment directly to the site of the clot. So far, the therapy has been tested only on clots in the middle cerebral artery, which is the site of perhaps a third of clot-caused strokes. It's conceivable, Furlan says, that as many as half of such strokes can be treated in this...
...evaluate a hospital's treatment of stroke, make sure it offers TPA. Find out what experimental trials, like the pro-urokinase study, it participates in. Does it enroll just two patients a month or 20 in these studies? How much experience do its doctors have threading catheters into the brain? Then, if stroke occurs, don't forget to act. Most stroke patients who got treated in time did so because they or someone nearby recognized the symptoms and got them to the hospital in a hurry...