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Although aspirin is best known as a pain reliever, its most important use these days is preventing blood clots that lead to heart attacks and strokes. As a result, drug com panies have been trying to build a better aspirin. On Wednesday, a Canadian team released the results of one “People have to take these drugs for many years.” of these medicines, known generically as clopidogrel, at a meeting of the American Heart Association. When tested on people who already had clogged arteries, clopidogrel reduced the risk of new heart attacks and strokes by one-third, compared with one-quarter for aspirin. Also, aspirin users were more likely to suffer diges tive bleeding as a side effect. “This is very exciting,” said Michael Gent, a researcher at Hamilton Civic Hospitals Re search Center in Hamilton, Ontario. “Here is a drug that is more effective than aspirin, which is the gold standard, and it is prob ably safer.” Clopidogrel is being de- 1 veloped jointly by the drug companies Sanofi and Bris tol-Myers Squibb. Gent said it will be submitted to the Food and Drug Administra tion for approval by the start of 1997. The price of the drug has Dr. Rose Marie Robertson Vanderbilt University not been announced, but it certainly will be more than aspirin, which costs pennies. The difference could influence whether doctors prescribe it for their heart and stroke patients, most of whom are already taking several other expensive medicines. Whether it will be widely used “will depend on the cost. People have to take these drugs for many years,” said Dr. Rose Marie Roti,, son ofVanderbilt University. The study involved 19,185 patient! North America, Europe and Australia who;- suffered heart attacks, strokes or pain® clogged arteries in their legs. They were randomly assigned to tali ther aspirin or clopidogrel for peri ranging from one to three years.! searchers recorded 5.8 new heart atn strokes or deaths from cardiovascular ease annually for every 100 patients aspirin, compared with 5.3 for those ting clopidogrel. Cardiovascular disease is by far biggest killer in industrialized counii Two out of six people die from heart di; and one out of six from strokes in the veloped world. Clopidogrel, like aspirin, worksbi hibiting platelets, the cells that formiil clots, although they do this in diffei ways. Clopidogrel is similar to anotherl thinning drug called ticlopidine but fewer side effects. tN A 0-5. CiTr3 Hss n£W fbii Mathematical equation helps predict epileptic seizur ► An implanted device could be developed that gives epileptics critical seconds to avoid danger. KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two researchers say they have discov ered a mathematical equation that can help predict when an epileptic is about to have a seizure. Their unpublished findings could lead to the development of an implanted device that gives epileptics critical seconds needed to remove themselves from danger ous or embarrassing situations. From their observations of 16 patients at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Ivan Osorio and mathematician Mark Frei developed an algorithm that allows a computer to anticipate seizures based on readings of pa tients’ brain waves. The patients experienced a to tal of 125 seizures and the re searchers succeeded in predicting 110 of them, with a warning time averaging 13.6 seconds, said Oso rio, a neurologist. The researchers believe they will be able to predict every seizure, as much as several minutes in ad vance, when their algorithm is modified for each patient. Ultimately, an electrode could be implanted in a patient’s brain and attached to a transmitter in the chest. Osorio said the device would analyze brain waves and sound an alarm or flash a light when the pa tient is about to have a seizure. A prototype warning device may be ready for testing within two years, the researchers said. “People have tried to do this for many years,’’ Osorio said. "To our knowledge, this is the first method in the world tol |/MME tect epileptic seizures as ™ are occurring.” Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neu and adviser to the Epilepsy Fed tion of America, questiti whether the algorithm would [ for all epileptics. But Osorio said it canber' lied for each individual and itf signed to adjust to individual: wave patterns. 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