Image of the Day
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Protecting the Brain with Progesterone
In a small, preliminary study of 100 patients published recently in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, doctors gave brain injury patients high intravenous doses of the pregnancy hormone progesterone within 12 hours of injury. Patients who received the hormone cut their risk of dying by 57 percent. The study "gives hope where there has been no hope before," said the the study's lead author, Dr. David Wright, an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at Emory. |
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Mark Cohen
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