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'Irish coffee' injection prevents stroke damage
From the New Scientist, great news
The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke, brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent.
Researchers at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School are unclear how caffeinol protects the brain after stroke, but the rat experiments showed that neither caffeine nor alcohol offered protection alone. In fact, alcohol alone actually caused more damage.
Posted by Jill Fallon at April 30, 2004 12:49 AM | Permalink