At 88, This Doctor Won’t Give Up on a Long-Ignored Treatment for Strokes and Heart Attacks

April 6, 2018

(STAT News) – Twenty-three years ago, Gurewich published a clinical trial in heart attack patients, showing his idea of combining two medications to break up blood clots had merit. But the company that ran the study was sold, and the buyer shut down its cardiology division. Since then, as he’s labored to get financial backing, another drug became the standard of care in stroke, while clot-busting drugs were abandoned as a treatment for heart attacks.