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...preliminary study, Israeli researchers successfully used ultrasound to break up BLOOD CLOTS that cause heart attacks. The technique is less invasive than bypass surgery and, unlike clot-busting drugs, does not pose a risk of excessive bleeding...
...powerful but still experimental drug called Aggrastat may cut by 45% the risk of HEART ATTACKS and death in patients hospitalized for severe chest pains caused by unstable angina. Unlike today's clot-busting drugs, which dissolve the clots that cause heart attacks, Aggrastat prevents clots from forming in the first place...
DIED. THE REV. MAC CHARLES JONES, 47, Baptist minister and bold architect of the National Council of Churches' efforts to investigate the burning of rural black churches throughout the South and awaken public outrage at the arson; of a blood clot; in Dallas...
...Cutting the risk of BLOOD CLOTS. Patients who have had more than one blood clot can dramatically reduce their chances of getting another by using the anticoagulant Coumadin--provided they stay on it permanently. Today most patients use the thinner just six months...
...neuroprotective agents now being studied have the added benefit of being effective whether the stroke is caused by a clot or by internal bleeding. So far, however, they have worked only in experiments with laboratory animals, where they could be given within minutes after a stroke was induced. Clinical trials are under way to see whether, as with TPA, administering these drugs shortly after the stroke's occurrence produces better results...