Minorities and women suffering from a stroke may be less likely to receive the clot-busting treatment tPA, known as tissue plasminogen activator, according to a 2016 study from Penn Medicine and other institutions published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. A release from Penn Medicine reports… Continue reading Minorities, Women, & the Elderly Less Likely to Receive Life-Saving Stroke Treatment