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Female Hormone May Treat Brain Injuries

FEMALE HORMONE MAY TREAT BRAIN INJURIES

Treatment with progesterone, a well-known hormone that prepares the womb for pregnancy, safely reduces the risk of death and disability in people who suffer a traumatic brain injury, new research suggests.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/...reut/index.html

Injuries Brain Treat Hormone Female

The advancements of science in our lifetime are simply phenomenal. Who would have guessed that something used to treat women with weak wombs in early pregnancy would reduce the risk of death and disability with people who suffer brain trauma and injury? The research is fairly new, it will be worth watching further research to see if this gets verified with further tests and research over the next few years as real patients are now used. Hopefully this will turn out as beneficial as it appears to be.

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That's very encouraging news, and there seems to be a significant increase in life expectancy already.

I suppose only time will really tell, and sadly until there has been a bit more supporting evidence, other hospitals aren't going to follow suit, but hopefully soon will if the end of year results are still proving to be making a difference.