A cheap and widely available drug could reduce the risk of death from common head injuries and save tens of thousands of lives each year, researchers say.
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Patients given tranexamic acid within three hours of injury had a 22% lower risk of death than those given a placebo: of 2,846 such patients given tranexamic acid, 5.8% died, compared with 7.5% of the 2,769 patients given placebo.
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