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That was the conclusion of an eight-year, $9 million study reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various...
...patients were given careful medical attention, including drugs to reduce the risk of blood clots and control high blood pressure, which is frequently a contributing factor in stroke. Roughly half the participants were randomly assigned to undergo bypass surgery to connect the superficial temporal artery, which nourishes the scalp, to an artery on the surface of the brain. (The scalp has an ample supply of blood from other vessels.) The central question posed by the investigators: Would the surgery reduce the incidence of future strokes and stroke-related deaths? Their conclusion: "The answer is no." In fact, the operation...
...went in pretty pumped,” stroke Moritz Hafner said. “We were really pumped because we had a bad race last Sunday and we were going to make up for that...
Following the high of its dramatic game one victory, Harvard suffered a letdown against the Tigers in game two. Princeton mercy-ruled the Crimson in five innings, regaining its hitting stroke after lying dormant in the opener...
Sophomore Cindy Shin of Yale won the competition with a total score of 230, one stroke ahead of second-place finisher Meg Nakamura of the champion team, Princeton...