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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A call to improve the recovery of stroke patients
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:00:58
	Publish Date:		2016-12-13 18:00:00
	Description:		Every year, almost 800 thousand Americans have a stroke, but not all patients fully recover. Anthony Kim, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine says doctors should put more effort into helping stroke patients get better. “Most of our interventions post-stroke are geared towards preventing the next stroke and we have relatively fewer interventions that are geared toward actually improving the recovery.” One way to fix this is to focus on therapies, which, as Kim says, is a huge unmet need. "That’s the question that patients ask after they have had the stroke. I mean they want to improve from the stroke that’s already occurred." Kim says a way to address this is if more patients enrolled in clinical studies. Her says this would help doctors develop and choose the right treatments.
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