Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

Historically, younger stroke victims receive different after-stroke intervention strategies than those over a certain age. However, Neale Chumbler, a UGA professor and head of the department of health policy and management in the College of Public Health, found patients responded equally to care efforts. 
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Dr. Mark Ebell, U.S. Preventive Task Force member, was interviewed by the BBC Radio 4 program "Inside Health."  The interview addresses the Task Force's recent draft guidelines regarding the use of breast cancer-reducing drugs such as tamoxifen and raloxifene.

Listen to the interview here.

The water and sediments in Athens’ little Trail Creek no longer seems fatal to life nearly three years after a massive chemical fire at the J&J Chemical Co. caused a spill that killed everything in the creek and flushed a toxic tide of acid-blue pollution into the Oconee River, according to a University of Georgia scientist.
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