1.   In China, says Kareem, it is fairly common to treat stroke with acupuncture.

2.   Once a patient reaches a hospital, physicians have many new techniques to treat a stroke.

3.   Snyder has used stem cells harvested from newborn mice to treat stroke, where a localized region of the brain is damaged.

4.   Strokes have been aggressively treated there for two decades, and physicians from its emergency department teach doctors around the country how to use TPA to treat strokes.

5.   The female hormone estrogen someday could be used to prevent or treat stroke, if beneficial effects seen in rat experiments can be duplicated in humans.

6.   While millions of dollars have been poured into research for drugs to treat stroke, most have failed in clinical trials.

7.   Until the recent use of TPA, there was little doctors could do to treat strokes once symptoms such as numbness and difficulty speaking appeared.