It looks like the National Hockey League is trying to make an example of Phoenix Coyotes player Raffi Torres. And so it should. The NHL whacked him in the head with a 25-game suspension for taking an illegal shot at Marian Hossa, striking the Blackhawks player directly in the head Tuesday night. Torres appears to ...
The world needs a better MRI when it comes to finding and treating the damage that traumatic brain injury does to the brain’s inner wiring. That destruction to the brain’s axons, its nerve fibers, is essentially not visible with traditional MRIs, which diagnose bleeding and swelling of the brain. The axons form a path or ...
Joseph Landolfi, a blue-collar kid from Tony Soprano’s North Jersey, has a challenging job. He is director of neuro-oncology at the JFK Brain Tumor Center in Edison, N.J. As such, he has to deliver a lot of bad news to patients. “It’s not always an easy job … It’s not like it doesn’t affect you,” ...
It’s such a remarkable story that it made the front pages of not only the New York City tabloids but The New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/new-york-officer-stabbed-in-head-is-called-luckiest-unlucky-man.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/knife-rammed-nypd-officer-eder-loor-brain-sliver-leaving-blind-voiceless-paralyzed-dead-surgeon-article-1.1063995 A Manhattan police officer was stabbed in the brain by an attacker Tuesday. Yet the cop managed to pull the knife’s three-inch blade out of his skull, and ...
MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that ”brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can elevate pressure inside the skull, ...
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can impair a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make complex, sometimes life-and-death, decisions, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2237-head-injuries-often-impair-medical-decision-making-skills “Immediately following injury and during the rehabilitation and recovery period, patients and their families must make ongoing ...
After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote that Karras at age 76 ...
In a front page story, USA Today this week reported that a record number of concussions were diagnosed in U.S. soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq last year. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-04-12/brain-injuries-concussions-US-military-troops/54185894/1 The article attributed that rise in concussions, an average of 16 a day sustained last spring, to more diligent efforts on the military’s part to ...
In what could be a big breakthrough, Eli Lilly & Co. has won approval from federal regulators for an imaging test that detects the brain plaque that’s a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug maker received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last Friday, and issued a press release on ...
One can get a concussion in the most unusual, and public, places, national television included. That’s what happened to actress Melissa Gilbert Monday night during “Dancing With The Stars.” Gilbert was taken to the hospital, which was a very smart move, after she fell and banged her head while dancing the paso doble on the ...