HIGH-TECH medicine can now save the lives of people injured in accidents that a generation ago would have proved fatal. But it still can do little to heal a severe brain injury.
“We’ve looked at dozens of drugs and treatments over the years, and we’ve never found one that’s effective,” said Dr Kenneth Smith, director of neurosurgery at St Louis University in the United States. “We’re kind of stuck.”
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