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Half a million Americans suffer strokes each year. Four times out of five, the cause is a wayward clot that blocks an artery and robs the brain of oxygen-rich blood. Nerve cells start to die, depriving key parts of the body of the cerebral instructions they need to function. TPA can change all that by dissolving the clot and restoring blood flow before any damage is done to the brain. "It's the first bright sign that we've had that something we're doing actually works," says Dr. Cathy Helgason, a professor of neurology at the University...
...medical breakthrough, a genetically engineered clot-dissolving drug, TPA, has been found to help prevent the irreversible brain damage that afflicts many stroke victims. Patients who received the drug were at least 30% more likely than untreated patients to suffer zero or minimal disability after three months. On the downside: TPA carries a small risk of brain hemorrhage and must be administered within three hours of the stroke...
DIED. CHARLIE RICH, 62, singer whose proto-Kenny Rogers ballads like The Most Beautiful Girl and Behind Closed Doors fused Nashville to Vegas in the '70s; from a blood clot; in Hammond, Louisiana...
...Flyers' Eric Lindros had to miss Philly's first three games against Buffalo because a puck hit him under the eye, which caused a clot. Rangers' captain Mark Messier nearly lost an eye when he took a biscuit in the face...
...true extent of his health problems. Quayle first experienced phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein in his leg, in 1991 and again in 1993. Late last year, after suffering shortness of breath, he spent eight days in the hospital where he was treated with blood thinners for a blood clot, which had developed in his right leg and traveled to his lungs. In January doctors removed his appendix after a CAT scan revealed a rare benign tumor...