A jury awarded a diabetic man, who suffered severe brain damage after being denied his insulin while incarcerated, Tuesday won a $17.5 million judgment against New York City, the New York Daily News reported. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/20/2010-10-20_175m_for_diabetic_denied_insulin_in_jail.html Jose Vargas, 43, was so disabled that he was baredly aware that the jury found in..
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Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand has been paralyzed from the neck down ever since he crashed into an Army player in a game Saturday. The question now is will the defensive tackle remain immobile. http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2010/10/paralyzed_rutgers_player_eric.html A Page One story in The Star-Ledger Tuesday vividly described the incident that lead to the young player’s spine injury,..
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The topic of safety and the sport of ice hockey is on the agenda Tuesday at a medical conference at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/sports/hockey/18hockey.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper The confab will include representatives spanning the National Hockey League to youth leagues, and they will talk about recommendations..
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Our national newspaper, USA Today, wrote a story last week about the U.S. Army “discovering” a simple blood test that can diagnose mild traumatic brain injury. The test is described as a huge breakthrough, a potential “milestone in brain-injury care.” http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2010-10-15-1Abrain15_ST_N.htm?csp=netvibes As someone who has spent their career as an advocate..
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A concussion is keeping another pro football player off the field this weekend. After getting sacked nine times in last week’s game against the New York Giants, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler won’t be playing in his team’s game against the Panthers Sunday. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/eagles/20101008_Bears__Cutler_out_due_to_concussion.html The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Cutler was checked..
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Maybe those Catholic school nuns were wiser than we thought. Handwriting is important, a skill that “is a major building block to learning,” according to a story Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_lifestyle Headlined “How Handwriting Trains The Brain,” the article says that researcher have found that writing by hand “helps ..
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Two Congressional committees a week ago made headway on getting legislation passed that would protect young athletes from the various after effects of concussions. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/sports/football/24concussion.html?scp=10&sq=concussions%20and%20NFL&st=cse In Washington last Thursday the House Energy and Commerce Committee put the finishing touches on its bill, which has been dubbed the Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act,..
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Football and baseball have gotten most of the press, but concussions are also on the rise in basketball, girls’ basketball in particular, according to a study published Monday by the Pediatrics medical journal. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-2497v1 The New York Times wrote a story about the study Tuesday, in a story headlined “In Basketball, Danger..
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It looks like some NFL teams will do anything to keep a player on the field — including apparently not being forthcoming about whether a player sustained a concussion. The New York Giants organization should be a bit ashamed about their comments — and lack of transparency — last year about tight end Kevin Boss,..
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A transplant patient who went into the hospital to get a kidney and wound up with brain damage will receive a $6 million settlement from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the Sun-Times reported Wednesday. The case involved diabetic Lauro Ortiz, who had been born with one kidney and sought to get..
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