Disparities Seen in Addiction Treatment

Disparities Seen in Addiction Treatment

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Roughly half of all black and Hispanic patients who enter publicly funded alcohol treatment programs do not complete treatment, compared to 62 percent of white patients, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania …
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Imaging No Help in Endovascular Tx for Stroke

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So the search has continued for the right combination of devices, drugs, or techniques to be used intra-arterially or endoscopically. Although intra-arterial treatment tends to open blocked arteries faster than IV tPA, the endovascular approach takes …
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Imaging acute ischemic stroke patients' brains did not lead to improved outcomes

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Patients in the study were enrolled at 22 centers in the United States within approximately 5.5 hours of their stroke onset. … “The majority of patients were not eligible to receive intravenous t-PA, the only drug approved by the Food and Drug …
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Intra-arterial therapy no more effective than IV t-PA in treating acute

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"This is the largest trial of an intra-arterial intervention for acute ischemic stroke, and is important because it shows that the addition of devices to treat clots within the brain artery was no more effective than treatment with IV t-PA alone," said …
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