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Oil Industry To Address Safety Issues At Houston Conference

Posted on April 29th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Houston Chronicle columnist Loren Steffy Saturday offered a thoughtful, and critical, column about the U.S. oil industry and its unwillingness to take responsibility safety issues. http://www.chron.com/business/steffy/article/Steffy-Safety-and-prevention-to-dominate-OTC-3518508.php Ostensibly, the column was a preview of a major trade show that starts this week in Houston, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). But Steffy..
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Kentucky Fried Chicken Told to Pay $8.3 Million to Brain-Damaged Girl

Posted on April 29th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

An Australia court has ordered the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain to pay $8.3 million to the family of a girl who suffered severe brain damage after eating a chicken wrap. Monika Samaan was a 7-year-old in October 2005 when she got salmonella poisoning, salmonella encephalopathy, after having a chicken meal..
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‘Cocktail-Party Effect’: Brain Can Only Concentrate On One Thing

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Who knew that our behavior at cocktail parties could teach us a lesson about the brain? The Wall Street Journal last week did a story on research that was conducted by the University of California in San Francisco, a study that was published recently in the Nature journal.  It’s all..
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Boxers’ Brains Exhibit Changes Even Before Symptoms Of Damage Appear

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A pioneering study on boxers has found that their brains undergo changes after repeated blows, changes before they show any symptoms, according to a story this week in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/research/study-shows-changes-in-fighters-brains-before-symptoms.html?_r=1 The article was about research being conducted by the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health...
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Oil Rig Worker Pinned And Killed In Oklahoma City

Posted on April 24th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Here’s another oil rig death for you, this one in Oklahoma City. Peter Cleeland, 45, died Monday night when he was pinned under a heavy piece of equipment, according to Koco.com. http://www.koco.com/news/30948502/detail.html#ixzz1szYlaTbJ Cleeland was killed when a hydraulic line broke at an oil rig at  Southeast 59th Street. He was..
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Oil Industry Needs To Train Younger Workforce On Safety

Posted on April 24th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

The oil industry is crowing that it learned valuable safety lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago, where 11 workers were killed, according to a recent report by Vermont Public Radio (VPR). But any such knowledge doesn’t address the new issue the industry faces, which is that its..
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NHL Sends Out Anti-Concussion Message With Torres Suspension

Posted on April 21st, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Ray Easterling, Who Filed An NFL Concussion Suit, Committed Suicide

Posted on April 21st, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Authorities have ruled that former National Football League player Ray Easterling’s death Thursday was a suicide. Unfortunately, it’s not really a surprise. He’s just the latest in a string of former pro players who developed dementia-like symptoms in what have should been their golden years. They decided to pull a..
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High-Def Fiber Tracking Is The Next Best MRI To Find Brain Damage

Posted on April 20th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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New Orlean Saints’ ‘Bounty’ Program May End Team In Court

Posted on April 20th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The New Orleans Saints’ practice of offering its players “bounties” to injure opposing players could make the team the target of lawsuits, according to legal scholars interviewed by The New York Times. The Times looked into the issue of what legal liability the Saints team may have for ir program..
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