LONDON, England -- A Australian electrical engineer is developing a portable brain scanner that could help prevent people from suffering brain damage after they have astroke.
The object was to test whether treating patients early and aggressively with a cholesterol-lowering drug would prevent them from having a second heart attack, having astroke, returning to the hospital or dying.
The device makers' effort is running into a heated debate among physicians over whether drug therapies to preventstroke have surpassed stents or carotid artery surgery as the best treatment for many patients with artery blockage in the neck.
And I think that treatment for cancer or treatment for heart disease or stroke or many of the diseases that a healthy lifestyle can either prevent or delay is very time consuming and painful and costly.
But Dr Kirkham said that vaccinating children to prevent this was not thought to be a viable option, as the vaccine had also been linked to stroke in certain small groups of children.