The father of a patient, who had traumatic brain injury (TBI) and died in a fire in a Tennessee facility, has filed an $8 million lawsuit against the company that operates the home, 21st Century Living Services, where he died, according to the Tennessean. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120623/NEWS01/306230018/Sumner-brain-injury-facility-avoids-shutdown-new-law?odyssey=mod|newswell|text||p The victim, Douglas Johnson, 45,..
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The British songstress Adele is being credited with waking a young girl from a coma. Sound crazy? Well it’s true: The Grammy-winning singer struck a mental chord, pun intended, with Charlotte Neve, the New York Post reported Wednesday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/musical_revival_y1BNeQajpsE0XXcjXqXIhO The 7-year-old British girl had suffered a nearly fatal brain hemorrhage..
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It looks like the less time a person with Alzheimer’s disease spends in the hospital, the better, according to a new study by Harvard University. The study found that being hospitalized begins a downward trend for many who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, speeding their moves into nursing homes, and even..
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Doctors are essentially calling the survival of a teen who was shot through the head with a fishing spear a miracle. Let’s just hope the youth is able to recover from this front-on assault on his brain. The Huffington Post did a story Monday on Yasser Lopez, the 16-year-old Miami..
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How low can people go? How about beating up two elderly men with Alzheimer’s? The two alleged victims live at Sunrise Assisted Living in Morris Plains, N.J., and have filed suit, claiming that they were repeatedly beaten by staff there. The Star-Ledger of Newark published a Page One..
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Here’s a tip of the hat to Pop Warner youth football, which is pro-actively addressing the issue of brain injury: It announced this week that it is limiting the amount of head-to-head contact players have during practice. http://www.popwarner.com/football/2012rulechanges.asp “In our continuing efforts to provide the safest playing environment for our..
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A private foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to build special centers to treat mental and physical brain trauma of the U.S. military, with ground broken on two today and the group looking to raise $100 to construct others. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (IFHF) will build the first two centers at..
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Here’s a malpractice nightmare for you, another case of truth being stranger than fiction. A 69-year-old woman who went to Montefiore Medical Center for a hernia operation ended up with severe brain damage, the New York Post reported Tuesday. She is now in a nursing home, where her attorney..
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Diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI, may prove to be a tool to gauge a person’s risk for long-term brain damage following a concussion, according to new research. The issue is that while the majority of people bounce back from a concussion without long-lasting side effects, there are some that sustain..
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