Dr. Clay Johnston

The FINANCIAL — AstraZeneca’s Brilinta (ticagrelor) has been approved in the US to reduce the risk of stroke, a leading cause of disability and death worldwide, in patients with acute ischemic stroke (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score ≤5) or high-risk transient ischaemic attack (TIA). The approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was based on positive results from the