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(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) A year after hospital discharge, the majority of stroke patients are listening to doctor's orders when it comes to taking their prescribed secondary stroke prevention medications, new data out of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows.

However, there is room for improvement, according to investigators.

Trauma patients who survive their initial injuries are at high risk for dying in the years that follow, and the risk is especially high for patients who enter nursing homes, a new study shows.

Patients who were given an intravenous drug during advanced cardiac life support did not have increased rates of survival to hospital discharge, researchers say.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (MedPage Today) -- The majority of individuals who had a cardiac arrest in a high school survived to hospital discharge if an automated external defibrillator (AED) was on site, researchers found.