Monday, August 25, 2014

A strong medical research future - Australia

This is good, but you survivors will need to contact him directly and have him focus on solving the problems in stroke. With 1 in 6 of you will have a stroke per the WHO, this is a major unmet need.
http://blog.neura.edu.au/2014/08/25/ed-message/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ed-message
Professor Peter Schofield is the Executive Director of NeuRA - See more at: http://blog.neura.edu.au/author/schofield/#sthash.RZ92xmbY.dpuf
 Professor Peter Schofield is the Executive Director of NeuRA

Problems in stroke;


1. There is no fast, easy and objective way to diagnose a stroke. Maybe when the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize is available. A number of friends have waited hours in ERs until stroke symptoms have visibly manifested themselves.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/11/34-teams-are-building-medical.html
2. Only 10% get to almost full recovery.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/stroke_rehabilitation.htm
3. 12% tPA efficacy
http://wrkf.org/post/more-stroke-patients-now-get-clot-busting-drug
4. Nothing being done to stop the neuronal cascade of death during the first week.
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2009/01/15/discovery-could-help-scientists-stop-the-death-cascade-after-a-stroke/
5. No one knows how to cure spasticity.
6.  No one knows how to cure fatigue.
7. F.A.S.T is actually a failure because even at its best tPA is only delivered to 33% of those eligible and then of those that get it  it only works to completely reverse the stroke 12% of the time.


Professor Peter Schofield is the Executive Director of NeuRA - See more at: http://blog.neura.edu.au/author/schofield/#sthash.RZ92xmbY.dpuf

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