New Pharmaceutical Approaches to Stroke Prevention, Treatment
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As the population ages, researchers are evaluating new drugs to prevent and treat stroke. Stroke is caused when a blood clot lodges in the brain and cuts off the blood supply to an area of the brain. Consequently, anticoagulants are often given to people at high risk of a stroke. Aspirin is often used alone or in combination with other drugs such as clopidogrel or dipyridamole. Other drugs called thrombolytic drugs break up existing blood clots. A third category of drugs are the neuroprotective drugs which are given within a few hours of the stroke to minimize damage to the brain.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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Views of assisted suicide from several nations
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Physician-assisted suicide was discussed at a conference in Ireland in 1997. In Ireland, physician-assisted suicide is unthinkable and suicide itself was illegal until 1993. Physician-assisted suicide is also banned in Canada except in British Columbia. There may be a widespread public debate about euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada when a doctor arrested for euthanasia goes to trial. A British physician was also tried for practicing euthanasia. Oregon and the Northern Territory of Australia have passed laws legalizing assisted suicide, but neither has been implemented.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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Migraine as a Woman's Issue--Will Research and New Treatments Help?
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Scientists discussed research on migraine at the 1998 conference of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS). About 240 million people suffer migraine attacks each year and three times as many women as men are affected. For this reason, many physicians do not believe migraine is a real disease. Drugs known as triptans are the most common treatment for migraine. The most well-known drug is sumatriptan but others are in development and testing, including zolmitriptan, naratriptan, rizatriptan, eletriptan and almotriptan.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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