Progress in stroke research

LifeNews.com | January 14, 2020 | Charlene Betourney

Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke

Exosome crystal structureIt’s been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what’s even more striking is that only a single drug remains approved today.

In a publication appearing this month in the journal Translational Stroke Research, animal scientists, funded by the National Institutes of Health, present brain-imaging data for a new stroke treatment that supported full recovery in swine, modeled with the same pattern of neurodegeneration as seen in humans with severe stroke…

Trauma from an acute stroke can happen quickly and can cause irreversible damage almost immediately…In less than 60 seconds, warns the Stroke Awareness Foundation, an ischemic stroke kills 1.9 million brain cells….

“Basically, during a stroke, these really destructive free radicals are all over the place destroying things,” said Stice, director of the RBC. “What the exosome technology does is communicate with jeopardized cells and work like an anti-inflammatory agent to interrupt and stop further damage.”

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Organ donation gives rise to euthanasia

LifeNews.com | WESLEY SMITH | JAN 7, 2020

Doctors are Increasingly Euthanizing Patients to Harvest Their Organs

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My very first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” I was called an alarmist and a fear-monger, but alas, I was right. In Belgium and the Netherlands, mentally ill and disabled people are killed in hospitals at their request, and then, their bodies are harvested — with the success of the procedures written up with all due respect in organ-transplant medical journals.

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