Twenty years ago stroke doctors celebrated the arrival of a powerful new weapon: the clot-clearing drug tPA. It was hailed as a lifesaver and has proved to be one for hundreds of thousands of patients ...

A decade after hospitals began using the first approved drug treatment for stroke, relatively few patients benefit from it. Most still don't get to the hospital in time. But use of the clot-buster tPA ...

A preliminary study shows that giving a clot-busting drug in a mobile stroke unit ambulance may lead to less disability after stroke, compared to when the clot-buster is given after reaching the ...

BOSTON (CBS) - We first told you about the drug tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) last week. Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are using tPA off-label on critically ill COVID-19 ...

ST. LOUIS – A new drug therapy has been administered at SSM Health hospitals since June 2021 that is proving to dissolve blood clots, particularly larger clots, in a shorter amount of time. Normally, ...

Administering a clot-dissolving drug to stroke victims quickly — ideally within the first 60 minutes after they arrive at a hospital emergency room — is crucial to saving their lives, preserving their ...

Northampton’s Cooley Dickinson Hospital reported 75 percent of eligible patients received the drug. But at Holyoke Medical Center, 96.3 percent of eligible patients -- 26 of 27 -- got the medication ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Current anticoagulant or antiplatelet use is not necessarily a contraindication for administering tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a stroke patient in the emergency department, a ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- TPA is a drug that is used to help stroke and heart attack victims. It works by breaking up or busting blood clots. Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are now using it in ...

Stroke patients receiving clot-busting medications before arriving at the hospital have a lower risk for disability afterward, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 23, 2017 - stroke patients receiving clot-busting medications before arriving at the hospital have a lower risk for disability afterward, according to research presented at the American ...