Jeri Rowe: Shot offers hope in stroke recovery

Well, the PR is working for etanercept. With no clinical trials this is masterful magical thinking.
This here seems to be the only study referenced in PubMed and its only observational;

Selective TNF inhibition for chronic stroke and traumatic brain injury: an observational study involving 629 consecutive patients treated with perispinal etanercept

If the idea is to get Enbrel into the brain why do it this way?
Why not have your doctor try the nasal to brain route. I have 13 posts on it with this one being the most interesting.
http://www.oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/04/uw-spinoff-impel-neuropharma-passes-key.html
It bypasses the danger of the needle and the patent. 

Jeri Rowe: Shot offers hope in stroke recovery