Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Team of Chicago Hospitals Awarded Grant to Accelerate Stroke Research, Treatments

Those of you in Chicago will need to get involved because if it is left to the hospital employees they won't even research the proper items, namely to prevent the  neuronal cascade of death in the first week. These 177 possibilities need research.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1599357
A new network dedicated to advancing research and therapies for stroke is forming in Chicago thanks to $2 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium is a partnership among Northwestern Medicine®, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoJohn H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook CountyLoyola University Medical CenterRehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center, and University of Chicago Medicine that will build an infrastructure to support clinical trials for stroke prevention, treatment and recovery. Northwestern University will be the regional coordinating center for the consortium and administer the project over the next five years.
"The Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium brings together the city's leading stroke experts and top medical centers in an integrated approach to improving treatment of stroke and reducing death and disability from the disease," said Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, MS, the principal investigator for the consortium, who is a neurologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "The primary goal of the network is to rapidly develop, promote and execute high quality, multi-centered clinical trials that will study interventions for prevention, treatment and recovery from stroke in both adult and pediatric patient populations."
Contact them here:
For information about clinical trials offered through the Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium, call 312-503-0492 or jdlux@northwestern.edu.


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1599357#ixzz2lDgTUvEI

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