A new drug improves chances of survival for patients who have suffered a mild heart attack or severe chest pains. Aggrastat prevents platelets from clumping together to form clots that can cause heart attacks. Studies show that there is a thirty-nine percent reduction in deaths when Aggrestat combined with aspirin was given as a treatment compared to Heparin and aspirin. Together Aggrestat and Heparin could probably reduce risk of death by clotting to a very small chance. In 1995 distinct species status was granted and attention was given to preserving the species.
Research is quite difficult as the thrush is rare and prefers to nest in thick remote forests.
One thing that is known is that the bird is very sensitive to disturbances. Its summer breeding grounds are in the Appalacian Mountains in New England which are being invaded by towers and ski trails. There are still a few one hundred year old oaks left in the Rahoy Wildlife Reserve. But the acorns can't take root because bracken fern chokes the ground. To solve this problem three rare Tamworth sows were turned loose last march to root for insects amoung the oaks.