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You should compare that 7/18 with what happened to other 18 in the same condition. 1 year after stroke, it is quite safe to say that 0/18 would have any improvement in 1 month (the patients were testes also 1 month after).

Doc here. Not negative on this story, but it is completely false to say 0/18 would have improvement with standard care. Patients frequently improve from strokes; some quite rapidly. Maybe you had a typo?

The next step is intervention versus placebo. Strokes are very common. It should be easy to find patients to enroll.

Hopefully this will turn out to work and be worth the cost.

1 year after the stroke, the difference in a month is very limited in my experience. I am not a doc, but I've crunched some numbers related to this topic, what was your experience?

"Significant improvement" is 10 points on a 0-100 scale. Maybe others had what to their family would be significant improvement, but it didn't quite exceed the marker.

With one intervention using donor cells in 12 months, for stroke patients, that could be a big deal.. with improvement to the procedure or combining with other treatments maybe more could be achieved.

it could mean a lot of things, but at the very least it means 7 out of 18 improved.