PROGESTERONE SHOWS PROMISE AS TREATMENT FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | October 2, 2006 | Copyright

Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center issued the following news release:

Emory University researchers have found that giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly following brain injury may reduce the risk of death and the degree of disability and also appears to be safe. The results of this study-the first clinical trial of its kind in the world-are available online in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers say the next step will be to confirm their findings in a much larger group of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. ...

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