The family of an Orlando teen is suing the man who shot her in the head, leaving her with permanent traumatic brain injury, according to WFTV. http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/family-girl-left-brain-damage-suing-man-convicted-/nY9Qn/ The lawsuit was filed in Orange County, Fla., by the relatives of Danielle Sampson,16, and names Tyrone Mosby as the defendant. Mosby was..
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I hope that most Department of Veterans Affairs regional offices are doing a better processing disability claims than the one in Waco, Texas. A new report has found that 40 percent of the disability claims reviewed in the Waco VA Regional Office were not processed correctly, and it recommends that..
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This is not a good thing: The Department of Defense has shuttered several facilities that treat veterans and active service members for traumatic brain injury (TBI). With so-called sequestration cutting into the department’s budget this year, it appears that TBI centers that have small patient volume and are relatively costly..
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A Connecticut woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during an accident where a municipal van crashed into her car has received a $2.5 million settlement, according to the Connecticut Law Journal. http://www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202612651862&thepage=1 Donna Antczak, a 62-year-old Waterford resident, was driving to a BJ’s Wholesale Club the morning of..
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I haven’t read anything on this topic before, but patients who spend long periods in Intensive Care Units have been developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing frightening hallucinations while hospitalized and drugged. The New York Times Tuesday published an article, “Nightmares After the I.C.U.,” about this issue. The newspaper..
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The new music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cancelled his appearance this Saturday at Tanglewood, Mass., after suffering a concussion from an accident at his home, according to The New York Times. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/andris-nelsons-withdraws-from-tanglewood-performance-after-concussion/?smid=nytimesarts Andris Nelsons’s appearance at the music venue would have been his first since his appointment..
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Virtually everyone has a TV set, and who knew how much of a safety risk it is for kids. More than 17,000 children, or one child every 30 minutes, are treated in U.S. emergency departments each year for a TV-related injury, according to a study published online Monday by the..
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A hand-held device that detects bleeding of the brain by using infrared light is being heralded as a potentially life-saving tool to help our soldiers in combat. The U.S. military is ready to deploy the device, the Infrascanner 2000, after years of testing, according to an article earlier this year..
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A Bronx jury awarded $20 million in a case where a security guard at a homeless shelter dropped a 4-day-old newborn on her head, the New York Post reported Saturday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/tot_drop_kin_get_mil_lTxjYkq3qWAuqks4A2zFYK The incident happened in June 2003 at the Icahn House in the South Bronx, a shelter run by the..
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