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Medical Notes: Week of March 4, 2018

>> March 4, 2018

Doctors may have a lot more time to respond to strokes than they thought. Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine show that with quick brain scans to pinpoint stroke locations doctors may have as long as 24 hours after a stroke to administer clot …

Locked-In Syndrome

>> September 25, 2016

Some people who have a stroke in the brain stem suffer from a condition where they are fully conscious and aware, yet appear to be in a coma because they cannot move a muscle, except for sometimes the eyes. They may remain in this “locked-in” state …