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...there are risks in using the Pill to fool with Mother Nature. Seasonale would necessarily expose a woman to nine extra weeks of estrogen a year, and doctors have long known that taking estrogen increases a woman's risk of suffering a blood clot or stroke--particularly if she smokes or has high blood pressure. Estrogen may also boost a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, although the evidence for that is less clear...
...there are two major groups of strokes and each requires different tests and treatments. In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts and causes bleeding in the brain, which can be detected immediately by a C.T. or MRI scan. In the other, major family of strokes, ischemic, a clot obstructs the flow of blood, starving and killing brain tissue beyond the blockage. This kind of stroke, which Ford suffered in the balance center at the base of the brain, may also be seen by C.T. or MRI, but sometimes not until 24 hours after it occurs, and even then...
...patient fares after a stroke depends on several factors, including how much of the brain has been affected; how soon and what sort of treatment is started (clot busters like TPA, or tissue plasminogen activator, should be administered within three hours for ischemic strokes but not for hemorrhagic strokes, lest they cause even more bleeding); how severe the symptoms are (paralysis is worse than simple weakness); and the patient's general health before the brain injury...
...going to the hospital--by an average of two hours, the JAMA study found. When these patients finally show up at the emergency room, it often takes doctors longer to make the right diagnosis. All the while, their heart isn't getting potentially life-saving treatment with clot-busting drugs, beta-blockers or emergency angioplasty. These delays, says Dr. John Canto, the study's lead author and a cardiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, help explain why a heart-attack patient who doesn't experience chest pains is twice as likely to die at the hospital as someone...
VICTORIOUS VENOM More than half a million patients each year have their clogged arteries Roto-Rootered with balloon angioplasty. Now researchers report that a new clot-busting drug, Integrilin, derived from--hiss!--snake venom, can cut the risk of death and heart attack 40% during the first 48 hours after angioplasty. Integrilin, like its top rival ReoPro, belongs to the "superaspirin" class of drugs. There's at least one difference: ReoPro costs $1,500; Integrilin...