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On Rounds With Renowned New Jersey Brain Tumor Specialist
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,” ...
New York Cop Miraculously Skirts Death After Being Stabbed In Brain
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 Research Finds New Method To Monitor Intercranial Pressure
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, ...
Ex-NFL Player And Actor Alex Karras Has New Role: Brain Injury Victim
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 ...
FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Test To Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease
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 ...
After Concussion, Melissa Gilbert Shouldn’t Return To ‘Dancing With The Stars’
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 ...
NCAA Kicks In $400,000 For Research On Sports Concussions
In a concerted effort to better understand the long-term consequences of sports-related concussions, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is contributing $400,000 to kick off a study by a consortium of researchers that will examine the effects of head injuries on student-athletes over the course of their college careers and beyond. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ncaa-funds-concussion-research-230992.aspx The National Sport ...
Word Spreads On Wisconsin’s New Youth-Concussion Law
Now that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a youth-concussion bill into law, sports medicine specialists are trying to get the word out. http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-signing-bills-on-reading-wolf-hunt-concussions-vj4r4jm-145779905.html Wisconsin, the 32nd state to pass a concussion law, now mandates that student athletes younger than 19 who sustain head injuries must be pulled from practice or a game. And these ...
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Donates $300 Million For Brain Research
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, whose mother has Alzheimer’s disease, is committing an additional $300 million to brain research. In a press release, the Allen Institute for Brain Science said that Allen’s latest contribution will allow the organization to significantly expand its scientific programs. Like his fellow Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, Allen has a philanthropic bent. ...
Study Finds Quantitative CT Sharpens Outcome Prediction In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
A recently published study found that quantitative computed tomography (CT) scans improve outcome prediction in acute traumatic brain injury. “We believe that objective computational tools and data-driven analytical methods hold great promise for neurotrauma research, and may ultimately have a role in image analysis for clinical care,” an abstract on the study, which was published ...
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