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Secrets of a good night’s slumber

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AS a study reveals nearly half of UK women have sleep problems, we reveal easy ways to help you nod off.</h3>
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When was the last time you had a good night’s sleep?</div>
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If you can’t remember you’re not alone. According to the latest research, nearly half of women in the UK are sleep deprived.</div>
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The study, commissioned by The Sleep Apnoea Trust, revealed that 46 per cent of women admitted to having trouble sleeping.</div>
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As well as leaving you feeling tired, sleep problems can have a detrimental effect on your health, mood and productivity.</div>
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It can slow down your metabolism and make you irritable and restless. While the ideal amount of sleep needed differs from person to person, most people need between seven and nine hours.</div>
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Yet there are many things that can take their toll on the quality of sleep, including stress and anxiety.</div>
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“We are constantly stimulated by work, social lives and screens, which can make it hard to switch off,” says wellbeing expert Helena Grzesk, spa director of The Spa at The Midland, Manchester.</div>
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“The good news is that there are lots of things you can try, which will all help make a difference to your sleeping patterns.”</div>
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Here Helena shares her top tips on how to have a restful and fulfilling night’s slumber. </div>
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SNOOZING SCENT </h3>
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“Lavender is a powerful essential oil that induces relaxation and sleep and is especially beneficial if you feel stressed,” says Helena.</div>
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Having a relaxing bath before bed can help you unwind and give you some well-deserved “me time”.</div>
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Put a few drops of L’Occitane Lavender Foaming Bath, £20 (uk. loccitane.com) into the tub and soak in warm water for 20 minutes.</div>
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Spritz your bed linen with This Works Sleep Plus Pillow Spray, £25 (thisworks.com).</div>
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This blend of aromatherapy oils contains lavender to help lull you to sleep. </div>
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FOLLOW A ROUTINE</h3>
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“As humans we are programmed to follow a routine,” says Helena.</div>
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“Yet as life demands more and more from us, sticking to a set bedtime can be tricky.”</div>
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However there are great benefits to trying to be consistent in the time you go to bed and the time that you wake up.</div>
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“Regular bedtimes will set your body clock and once it’s set you will see an immediate improvement in the quality of your sleep,” explains Helena.</div>
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The key is to plan ahead.</div>
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Make an effort to finish all your admin, dinner and chores by the same time each night so you can head to bed at a regular hour. </div>
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EAT WELL TO SLEEP WELL </h3>
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“If you’re struggling to sleep you might be eating too late,” says Helena.</div>
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“Food stimulates your metabolism and gives your body a wake-up call that it doesn’t need before bedtime.”</div>
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For this reason it is best to eat as early as you can in the evening.</div>
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If you do find yourself eating late, avoid anything with a high sugar or fat content.</div>
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Instead choose foods that are rich in the amino acid tryptophan, which is known to promote restful sleep.</div>
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Turkey, lentils, seeds and nuts are all good sources. </div>
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STICK TO HERBAL TEA</h3>
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“Caffeine can stay in the body for up to 12 hours so avoid tea or coffee from midday onwards,” says Helena.</div>
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“Try a calming camomile tea or fresh mint tea instead.”</div>
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Too much alcohol can also disrupt sleep. While it can make you fall asleep quickly the sleep you will have will be poor quality and disturbed.</div>
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For optimal sleep, drinking no more than one glass of wine and just two or three cups of tea or coffee a day is advisable. </div><script async src="//
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TURN OFF YOUR PHONE </h3>
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“The bright screens of electronic gadgets disrupt the body’s natural rhythm which reduces sleep quality,” says Helena.</div>
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“We are also subjecting our minds to a continual stream of information.”</div>
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You need to give your body the triggers it needs for sleep, such as darkness and calm.</div>
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To do this avoid watching TV and working on your laptop or phone within two hours of bedtime.</div>
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Try reading a book, filling in an adult colouring book or writing your thoughts in a journal to get them off your mind before sleep.</div>
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If digital gadgets can’t be avoided then make sure to turn down the brightness of the screen.</div>
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Secrets of a good night’s slumber

AS a study reveals nearly half of UK women have sleep problems, we reveal easy ways to help you nod off. Top tips to sort out a ...

Apple iPhone iOS 9.3 update could help you SLEEP at night

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APPLE'S upcoming iOS 9.3 update for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users includes a slew of new features, including a new Night Shift mode which brings f.lux-like functionality to your device – along with the promise of a better night's sleep.</div>
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Apple has unveiled the first beta of iOS version 9.3, which includes a host of tweaks, improvements and new functionality.</div>
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The new operating system upgrade brings new features to Health, Wallet, CarPlay, Notes and Settings – as well as a new Night Mode.</div>
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Apple claims the latter "may even help you get a good night’s sleep."</div>
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That's because Night Mode uses your current location combined with the clock on your device to work out when the sun will set.</div>
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When it does, your iPhone or iPad will automatically start to "shift the colours in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum," Apple claims on its website.</div>
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This shift means the backlight in your device's display will be easier on your eyes.</div>
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Many studies have shown that exposure to bright blue light in the evening can affect your circadian rhythms and make it harder to fall asleep.</div>
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Night Mode hopes to solve this problem, so your iPhone won't affect your sleep when you're up late at night setting an alarm ready for the morning, or checking Facebook one last time before turning in.</div>
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In the morning, it returns the display to its regular settings. </div>
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The functionality is very similar to f.lux – a hugely popular Windows and Mac app that gradually changes your display lighting based on the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.</div>
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The lightweight app, which hopes to reduce eye strain in users who work at night or in dimly-lit areas, has been downloaded more than 15 million times, according to the company.</div>
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Aside from Night Mode, other notable features in the latest version of iOS include –</div>
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<strong>Notes</strong></h2>
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In iOS 9.3 you can now secure your notes and doodles with a password – or using the Touch ID fingerprint sensor.</div>
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That means any quick bullet-points about your financial details, medical info or website logins can be locked-down with Apple's biometric security.</div>
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You can also sort notes by date created, date modified, or alphabetically.</div>
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<strong>Health App</strong></h2>
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Apple has clearly spent some time tweaking its Health app, which hopes to become your go-to repository for all your health tracking data from wearables, like Jawbone, or apps like MyFitnessPal.</div>
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In iOS 9.3, categories such as Weight, Workouts, and Sleep have a new slider menu that reveals apps you can easily add to your Health dashboard.</div>
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The preinstalled Health app also now displays your move, exercise, and stand data, as well as your goals, from Apple Watch.</div>
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Apple has also added some functionality to its News app.</div>
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The articles in For You will now be better tailored to your particular interests. And to help you discover new Favourites, For You suggests trending topics and Editors’ Picks. </div>
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Landscape orientation has also been added.</div>
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For iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus users, Apple has added 3D Touch shortcuts to apps including Weather, Settings, Compass, Health, App Store and the iTunes Store.</div>
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Siri now supports Hebrew, Finish and Malay. And iCloud for iBooks will sync your Audiobooks, PDFs and more across your Apple devices.</div>
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Losing sleep: Stress robs us of 64 nights of a sleep a year

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ADULTS lose 64 nights’ worth of sleep every year, usually due to stress, a study has found.</div>
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The average grown-up gets just six hours and 36 minutes’ sleep every night – an hour and 24 minutes less than the recommended eight hours.</div>
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This amounts to 511 hours over a year – the equivalent of almost 64 eight-hour nights, Stress is the main reason for insomnia, the poll found.</div>
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A snoring or fidgeting partner, being too hot or cold in bed and worrying about money can also cause sleeplessness.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lack of sleep can lead to dangerous health issues</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Experts recommend that we get around eight hours sleep a night</td></tr>
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Using technology late at night, having young children and lying in an uncomfortable bed are among the other reasons people cannot nod off.</div>
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Sixty eight per cent of adults do not believe they get enough sleep, with one in twenty claiming to get a maximum of four hours’ shut-eye a night.</div>
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Britons’ productivity is affected two days a week due to a lack of sleep, the survey of 1,000 people by MatalanDirect. com found.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being too hot or too cold causes a lot of people to lose sleep</td></tr>
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Britons miss more than a WEEK of work because of sleep problems - but do NOTHING about it

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BRITONS miss a staggering amount of work because of sleep problems but are not prepared to do anything about it.</div>
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Even though one in three Britons experience poor sleep at some point in their lives, 60 per cent of these people do not remedy the situation - preferring to put up with sleepless nights.</div>
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The poor sleepers - those who reported their sleep as below average - missed a shocking 14.6 DAYS of work every year, almost twice as many as the average employee.</div>
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On top of the days missed, the research showed that poor sleep is a “productivity killer.” </div>
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Concentration levels, ability to complete work and staying awake were the top three issues affecting the British workforce after a bad sleep.</div>
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A restless night’s sleep also negatively impacts Brit’s personal lives. Respondents said they lacked energy, experienced more bad moods and arguments with loved ones.</div>
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More staggering, one out of five respondents also reported they had fallen asleep while driving in the last year - putting their lives at risk. </div>
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Today marks the shortest day off the year and means a seasonal shift in sleep quality reveals digital medicine company Big Health, who commissioned the World Sleep Survey.</div>
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Colin Espie, co-founder of Big Health and professor of sleep medicine at the University of Oxford, said: “As we enter the winter months, it’s important that we recognise the widespread effects poor sleep has on our lives.</div>
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“Physically we will feel lethargic and sleepy, mentally we become slowed down with poorer concentration and memory, and emotionally we may become irritable and rather down, with bursts of hyperactivity.”</div>
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Overall, sickness absence and working-age ill health, including poor sleep, currently costs the UK economy £100billion a year, according to a study from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).</div>
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The founders of Big Health say companies have to “wake up to sleep” in order to improve the effectiveness of their workforce and general health as a result.</div>

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sleeping pills could help people recover from strokes</td></tr>
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A TABLET prescribed for insomnia could hold the key to people recovering from a stroke, a study found.</div>
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Zolpidem is a new class of sleeping pill sold under the brands Stilnoct and Edluar in the UK and Ambien in the US.</div>
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It is handed out to 750,000 NHS patients each year and works by dampening the electrical activity of the brain.</div>
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But a Stanford University School of Medicine study found lab mice which had strokes rebounded significantly faster if they received low doses of the pill.</div>
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It is suggested the drug helps the brain rewire itself after the stroke repairing the damage caused.</div>
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A stroke is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.</div>
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The faster someone is treated the less damage is caused to the body which can cause brain injury, disability and possibly death.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every year around 110,000 people have a stroke in England</td></tr>
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Every year, around 110,000 people have a stroke in England and it is the third largest cause of death, after heart disease and cancer.</div>
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If untreated after a few days tissue death continues to spread to adjacent brain regions due to repercussions from the initial damage but the brain begins slowly rewiring itself and substituting new neural connections for those destroyed by the stroke.</div>
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Within three to six months, at least 90 per cent of all the recovery a stroke patient is likely to experience takes place.</div>
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Until now no drug has been shown to improve recovery after the stroke</div>
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But zolpidem enhanced a type of nerve-cell signaling activity whose role in recovery unexpectedly appears beneficial.</div>
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This signaling was bolstered even though the drug was given at doses well below those at which it exerts its hallmark sedative effect.</div>
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Nerve cells signal to one another by means of substances called neurotransmitters.</div>
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Neurotransmitters can be excitatory, triggering propagation of an impulse in the receiving nerve cell.</div>
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Or they can be inhibitory, temporarily preventing the receiving nerve cell from propagating any impulses.</div>
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The roughly one-fifth of all nerve cells in the brain that are inhibitory mainly do their job by secreting a neurotransmitter called GABA.</div>
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The bulk of GABA signaling takes place at synapses, scientists have learned that nerve cells can also feature GABA receptors elsewhere on their outer surfaces.</div>
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These are called extrasynaptic receptors.</div>
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Previous research suggested that extrasynaptic GABA signaling impeded stroke recovery in an animal model.</div>
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But until the new study, published online in Brain, nobody had looked into the impact on stroke recovery of the far more common synaptic GABA signaling.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The results need to be independently replicated before clinical trials in humans can begin</td></tr>
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Professor in Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences Dr Gary Steinberg said: "Before this study, the thinking in the field was that GABA signaling after a stroke was detrimental</div>
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"But now we know that if it's the right kind of GABA signaling, it's beneficial. And we've identified an FDA-approved drug that decisively promotes the beneficial signaling."</div>
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While zolpidem dramatically improved mice's rate of recovery from stroke, its ability to increase the extent of their recovery couldn't be determined because, unlike humans, mice naturally regain most of their pre-stroke function eventually.</div>
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Further experiments are planned to test the drug in other animal models, as well as to experiment with different dose sizes and timing, before proceeding to clinical trials</div>
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However he cautioned that the study's results need to be independently replicated in other laboratories before clinical trials of the drug's capacity as a stroke-recovery agent can begin.</div>
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