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When her stroke hit, Edna Wooten somehow stopped her car. Then her grown daughter ignored her slurred protests and raced her to the hospital in time for a drug to dissolve the blood clot causing her stroke.
Wooten was lucky: Too few stroke sufferers get that clot-busting treatment, especially black and Hispanic patients who are at highest risk of having a stroke and also may be particularly hesitant to seek fast care.See the full content of this document
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With Stroke, Seconds Count
New research is targeting those underserved populations to better spread the word that "time is brain" -- the faster you move the more brain you save.
"We basically scare people so much abou...See the full content of this document
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