The prevalent scientific theory about Alzheimer’s disease is that it is caused by a protein called beta amyloid, which creates a sticky plaque in the brains of those with the dreaded ailment. But what if that theory is wrong? The Wall Street Journal Saturday did a fascinating Page One story..
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Lisa McHale is getting the word out to parents: Don’t let your kids play contact sports that can result in head injuries and brain damage. She won’t let her sons participate in Pop Warner football any more. The New York Daily News this week printed an interview that McHale did..
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A head cold apparently does more than give you a runny nose or a bad cough. It affects your brain, according to a recent study. “Muddled thinking” and “feeling of malaise” may be caused by changes in the brain itself, not “cold symptoms” themselves,” according to The Wall Street Journal...
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A renowned children’s hospital in San Diego last month started a program to try to detect and prevent brain-damaging seizures in newborns, according to the North County Times. “Neuro NICU” is the new initiative at Rady Children’s Hospital, which is only one of 10 U.S. hospitals to have programs to..
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Some might say that logic dictates you don’t allow a company to put a drug on the market that doesn’t have an antidote, or has been linked to hundreds of deaths. But that is not what the Food and Drug Administration said about Pradaxa on Friday. Pradaxa, produced by the..
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Here’s more bad news: High blood pressure can result in brain injury. That was the finding of a recent study performed by researchers at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of California at Davis, according to Time magazine. The work looked at the connection between systolic blood pressure, which..
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I am usually writing about brain-injury cases that involve sports such as football and hockey, or car accidents. This is the first time I recall writing about a jockey. Darren Beadman, a renowned 46-year-old Australian jockey, has told the media that his riding career is over because of head injuries..
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You don’t have many options in Mississippi if you have a brain-injured loved one and you want to place them in a long-term care facility that specializes in TBI, according to The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss. There are none in the state. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20121029/NEWS/310290026/Care-struggle-families-traumatic-brain-injury-victims That’s the sad problem that Robert Sandifer..
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Last week in New Jersey a lawsuit went to trial, a case charging that a local county failed to maintain a road. A matter like that doesn’t sound like it would involve traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it does. The litigation, taking place in Superior Court in Bergen County, stems..
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There may be a breakthrough in terms of measuring the impact of blows to the head during sports, an aid in terms of detecting possible concussions. On Wednesday Reebok-CCM Hockey and MC10 Inc. said that early next year a wearable sports impact indicator — which will be incorporated into a..
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