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News Release from: BUPA | Subject: Protection
Edited by the Insidemoneytalk Editorial
Team on 19 November 2007
Award winning project will save lives
with new stroke treatment discovery
Every year 5,000 people in the UK suffer a subarachnoid haemorrhage - a very serious form of stroke - from which they either die or be left with severe brain damage.
By finding effective treatments for this form of stroke survival rates can be dramatically improved as Dr Ming-Yuan Tseng and his team, from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, have discovered As a result of their research, Dr Tseng and his team have found three readily-available medications which can increase the chance of a full recovery for this group of patients from 35 to 60 percent
This article was originally published on Insidemoneytalk on 28 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Their hard work has been recognised by the BUPA Foundation, which has presented them with the medical research charity's annual Research Award.
Dr Tseng said: "The BUPA Foundation Award has inspired me to continue to investigate further treatment for patients suffering stroke or brain injury.
In the future I would like to combine these treatments to further improve the outcome." The vice-chairman of the BUPA Foundation, Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, said: This young researcher and his team have discovered readily available treatments which can be used for subarachnoid haemorrhage and will save lives." Dr Tseng received his BUPA Foundation award at a ceremony at Lincoln's Inn in London on the evening of 14 November 2007.
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