Posts Tagged ‘ischemic stroke’
NIH launches First-of-its Kind Study to Search for Neuroprotective Stroke Therapies
On September 3, 2019, the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it has called on researchers to make the standards and practices for conducting early stage, or preclinical, medical research on animals more like those used for clinical trials. To facilitate these research design changes, the NIH will provide $ 4 million…
Read MoreDespite Benefits, Stroke Patients Receive Vastly Different Amounts of Physical Therapy
Medicare beneficiaries, recovering from strokes, receive vastly different amounts of physical and occupational therapy during their hospital stays despite evidence that such rehabilitation is strongly associated with positive health outcomes, finds a newly released study by at Providence, Rhode Island-based Brown University. The data also suggests that patients who receive more physical therapy (PT) are less…
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