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 Chicago, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Loyola University Medical Center, Rehabilitation 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.

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A Revolutionary Approach to Advancing Human Ability™ After a Stroke

A puff press release piece from RIC. You will notice no factual statistics on recovery.  Unless your rehabilitation place gives out facts they are just trying to appeal to your hopes. And the term is even trademarked. Big Whoopee.
http://www.ric.org/conditions/stroke-recovery/
RIC sets the standard for care by our novel approach to after-stroke treatment. An expert, integrated team of clinicians and researchers work together to set individual patient goals, tackle challenges, and innovate solutions that improve patient recovery.

Our quality is unrivaled. Our care is top ranked for more than two decades.

This is a tremendously exciting time for neuroscience and physical medicine. We’re learning how plastic the brain is, and how we can impact its ability to rewire itself through targeted therapies. We’re standing on the doorstep of brain-based therapies that offer recovery where it was never possible before.
A research study published by the National Institutes of Health confirms that comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation care is most effective in achieving the best recovery after stroke. Choose RIC and you’re choosing the best. As the #1 ranked rehabilitation hospital in the nation for more than two decades, we define quality by how successful we are at getting every patient to lead the most independent and fulfilling life possible. (numbers?)
We are proud to discharge more patients back home (vs. to another care facility) than anywhere else in the region. We have the most state-of-the-art technology and tools at our fingertips and the most accomplished, leading experts in the field.
On behalf of the entire RIC team, we are honored you are considering us and we look forward to working together on a successful recovery.
Richard L. Harvey, MD
Medical Director, RIC’s Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Center