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After years of work, a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers is one step closer to finding a possible treatment for stroke damage and spinal cord injuries...
...rich in vitamin C and certain antioxidants. And Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration granted juide giant Tropicana the right to put a new assertion on its packaging: Thanks to its rich potassium content, orange juice may help your heart, and lower the risk of high blood pressure and stroke...
...headlines today, but this isn't the first time scientists have questioned its safety. The drug has been around for 50 years and has spent almost half that time mired in controversy. Since the 1980s there have been reports linking PPA to increased risk of stroke. It was to head off a possible ban that the manufacturers' trade association put up $5 million to study the risks...
This study, led by scientists at Yale Medical School, tracked more than 700 people ages 18 to 49 who had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. It found that stroke patients were 50% more likely than control subjects to have used PPA within three days of the stroke. Even scarier, the risk among young women can be 15 times greater...
...bottles and capsules sitting in your cabinets are poisons waiting to kill you? Not exactly. "The risk should be appreciated but not exaggerated," warns Robert DeLap, head of the FDA office that reviews over-the-counter drugs before they're marketed. "You must remember that the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in this population, even with these medications, remains very, very...