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An Oxford University medical professor has criticized treatment of stroke victims in the UK. 
 
According to Professor Alastair Buchan, stroke patients should be treated with the same urgency as heart attack patients, as time is critical to brain survival. 
 
He also believes that clot-busting drugs commonly used in the US, Canada and Australia, tissue plasminogen activators (tPAs), should be widely available in Britain. It is under study but its use under current conditions could be more widespread. If tPAs are used in the first three hours following a stroke, chances of a full recovery are much improved.

Stroke sufferers missing out on clot-busting drug

U.TV - 5/10/2006 9:59 AM

Thousands of stroke sufferers in the UK are missing out on a clot-busting drug used in other parts of the world which can dramatically improve their rates of recovery, it was claimed today.
 
As he prepared to address a research conference on cardiovascular conditions today in Belfast`s Royal Victoria Hospital, Oxford University Professor Alastair Buchan called for tissue plasminogen activators (tPAs) to be made more widely available
 
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