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Magnetic Sensors Being Perfected Can Detect Brain Damage

Posted on August 26th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Scientists are hard at work trying to perfect sugar-cube-sized magnetic sensors that monitor brain activity, according to a story in The New York Times Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/sensors-for-brain-injuries-may-help-future-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper The article describes the work doing done at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology by researcher Svenja Knappe in Boulder, Colo...
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Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Flunks One Test, Shows Results In Other

Posted on August 26th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The results are out on the two late-stage clinical trials that Eli Lilly was running on a potential Alzheimer’s drug, and what you think about them depends on whether you tend to see the glass half empty or half full. Lily’s tests on the drug solanezumab didn’t attain their goal,..
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Obesity Increases Risk For Dementia Later In Life, Study Finds

Posted on August 23rd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Middle-aged people who are obese, and have risk factors such as high blood pressure, mentally decline faster as they age than those of normal weight, according to a study published Monday in the journal Neurology. The 10-year study involved 6,401 people aged 39 to 63 years old, some of whom..
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Brain-Injured Youth Gets $14.5 Million Settlement In Aluminum Bat Suit

Posted on August 22nd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A $14.5 million settlement was reached Wednesday of a lawsuit filed in the case of a New Jersey youth who sustained brain damage after being struck by a line drive hit by an aluminum bat, according to The Record of North Jersey. http://www.northjersey.com/sports/145_million_settlement_reached_in_Louisville_slugger_case.html?page=all And yet some haters are accusing the..
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July Army Suicides Mark Record For One-Month Span

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

The situation with military suicides doesn’t seem to be improving: July was marked by the most such suicides in a one-month period in recent memory. According to USA Today, last month there were 38 confirmed or suspected suicides in the Army, more than one a day. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-08-09/army-suicides/57096238/1 And at this..
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Movie Director Tony Scott’s Suicide May Not Be Related To Brain Cancer

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

The widow of movie director Tony Scott, who committed suicide by jumping off a California bridge Sunday, has denied that he had inoperable brain cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-0821-scott-death-20120821,0,4205494,full.story Scott, 68 — the director of films ranging from “Top Gun” to “Crimson Tide” to “Days of Thunder”..
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New Jersey Supreme Court Throws Out Brain Cancer Suit

Posted on August 17th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The New Jersey Supreme Court has thrown out a suit filed by a man who claimed his brain tumor was caused by a contaminated polio vaccine, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/bergen_county_man_who_says_pol.html The court ruled against Jamie Gannon and his wife Rebecca, in a 5-1 decision in favor of..
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Veterans’ TBI Symptoms Can Linger For Years, Study Says

Posted on August 17th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

New research has some troubling news for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The symptoms of combat concussions can last for years without any improvement. The New York Times blogged about a study by the University of Oklahoma, which tracked 500 veterans of the two wars who during..
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Bumbo Baby Seats Recalled After Skull-Facture Risk Reported

Posted on August 15th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Roughly 4 million Bumbo Baby floor seats are being recalled after 21 reports of infants falling out if them and fracturing their skulls. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with the Bumbo International Trust of South Africa, announced the voluntary recall Wednesday. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12247.html Consumers were warned to stop..
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Concussion Nixes Actress Return To ‘The Good Wife’

Posted on August 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Actress Kristin Chenoweth Concussion Perhaps this will drive home the point that concussions are serious business. Actress Kristin Chenoweth, after sustaining a brain injury on location for “The Good Wife” on July 11, issued a statement Monday saying that she won’t be returning to the CBS show. “It is with..
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