The Welsh Association of Stroke Physicians suggested reducing the number of acute stroke units in order to centralise expertise.

BBC: Health and Social Care Committee

Provision of hyper acute stroke units is being reviewed by the NHS and Ipswich could lose its emergency stroke care.

BBC: Nick Hulme

When stroke patients are admitted to hospital, they receive acute stroke care.

BBC: Princess Margaret: The medical care

This is really a good thing for the acute stroke field because it's clearly a safe drug, and it's a step forward for providing additional therapy.

FORBES: Winning A Battle In The War On Stroke

And at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in the UK, an associate of Ramachandran, Professor Candy McCabe is testing the use of mirrors with acute stroke victims.

BBC: What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

Dr Philip Gorelick, from Michigan State University, said the studies were "major steps forward in the successful treatment of acute ischaemic stroke, and pave the way for new treatment options".

BBC: 'Clot nets' help stroke recovery

While the drug industry has tested dozens of compounds to treat the acute phases of stroke and brain trauma, only a few medicines for lifting patients out of vegetative states have been brought into large-scale trials.

FORBES: Twilight Zone