May 2010
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California Seeks To Prevent Radiation Overdoses During CT Scans With New Bill
California is looking to enact a law to protect patients from radiation overdoses from CT scans, which are one of the key tools to detect brain injury. The state Senate last Friday passed a bill, 24 to 5, which mandates that the dose of radiation released during each scan be recorded on the image from the ...
Texas Tech Regent Asks Judge To Dismiss Ex-Coach Leach’s Lawsuit Against Him
Yet another member of the Texas Tech Board of Regents has asked a judge to dismiss former coach Mike Leach’s lawsuit against him as an individual. http://lubbockonline.com/node/10928/print This time, on Monday, lawyers for Board of Regents chairman Larry Anders filed documents that rebutted Leach’s attempt to hold individual college officials responsible for the school’s decision to fire him Dec. 30 ...
Brain Injuries Keep TBI Patients Up At Night, Study Finds
Adding insomnia to injury, those who suffer from traumatic brain damage may have issues sleeping because they are producing less melatonin, according to a new study. http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20100524/brain-injuries-may-lead-to-sleeping-problems Australian reseachers conducted a sleep experiment where they compared patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury on average 14 months prior to the test with 23 healthy people. The research found that ...
Neck Exercises May Prove To Be The Ounce Of Prevention For Football Concussions
Here’s a pro-active approach to dealing with potential brain injuries in sports: Prevent them by doing neck-strengthening exercises. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/05/24/concussions-fought-neck/ Mike Gittleson, who was the University of Michigan’s football strength and conditioning coach for 30 years, believes young athletes should be doing neck-strengthening exercises to protect themselves from brain injuries. In fact, I agree with him that such ...
U.S. Troops Experiencing More Stress Than British In Iraq, Afghanistan Combat
Nobody knows the reason why yet, but American troops who have seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering far higher rates of post-traumatic stress than their British counterparts, according to a new study. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/17trauma.html?ref=world U.S. troops returning to the United States are seeing rates of PTS in the 10 to 15 percent range, while for the British the ...
College Football Player In Oregon Dies Of Brain Injuries From Scrimmage
Another tragedy has struck a young football player on the field. Dylan Steigers, a 21-year-old Eastern Oregon University football player, died a day after he sustained brain injuries after being struck in the head during a scrimmage Saturday. Steigers, who had been a football star at Sentinel High School in Missoula,, Mont., walked off the field after being hit, but then ...
Why We Think Helicopters, not MRIs, Mark The Greatest Advance In Brain Injury Care
It would seem quite logical to believe that using helicopters to transport the injured to hospitals would make a dramatic difference in their prognosis and survival. After all, what land vehicle has the mobility and speed of a whirlybird? But at a recent conference in Las Vegas, Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Nevada School ...
Study Finds People With Common Heart Defect More Likely To Have Brain Aneurysms
In what appears to be an unusual link, those who have a common heart defect may also be more likely to have brain aneurysms, according to a new study published this week in the mediocal journal Neurology. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100503161227.html As much as 2 percent of the population is born with bicuspid aortic valve, or BAV, meaning the valve has just ...
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