In a preclinical study, rodents treated with uric acid showed improved long-term outcomes after acute ischemic stroke. The findings suggest the treatment may work as an add-on therapy to standard stroke treatments in humans. The NIH-funded study was published in Stroke.

An NIH-funded study has found that adults who were hospitalized for a severe infection were more than twice as likely to develop heart failure years later. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, underscore the importance of measures that help prevent severe infections.