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Obama shifts into campaign mode on health care

Posted on July 15, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

The healthcare industry is spending over a million dollars a day in Washington to lobby Congress on proposals for health insurance reform. It appears that lobbying is working, that the insurance companies have bought themselves another Congress. It really isn’t Obama’s fault and the pressure on him to get something..
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BIA-USA Urges Congress to Increase Funding for TBI Programs

Posted on July 13, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

From the Brain Injury Association of the U.S.:Urge Congress to Increase Funding for TBI Programs!The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education begins consideration of the FY10 funding bill today! Over the next few days, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education..
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Shooting unveils very different sides of McNair

Posted on July 6, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

It is an odd intersection of themes, an NFL quarterback, death and adultery. Adultery seemingly in every public figure story of late and now a revered NFL quarterback is caught in the cross hairs of such controversy, but found dead as a consequence. A week of digging on Michael Jackson’s..
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Billy Mays Death – Heart Attack?

Posted on June 29, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Speculation has run rampant for the last couple of days as to whether Billy Mays died from injuries he suffered in a flight incident. The below story may clear up that confusion, but until a full investigation is done, one should remain skeptical. Attorney Gordon Johnson Date: 6/29/2009 1:43 PM..
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Changing with the times; the DSM :Thoughts

Posted on May 26, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

issuesdaily.com staff article I have been involved in dog training for some time and as such, I spend a great deal of time researching new findings in how dogs learn. Developments are fast and furious in the realm of dog behavior with major studies usurping our traditional ideas of how..
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HBO series details Alzheimer’s pain, progress

Posted on May 9, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 5/9/2009 4:23 PM LYNN ELBERAP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maria Shriver said her role in a major HBO documentary series on Alzheimer’s stems from the professional and the intensely personal. “I approached this project as a child of Alzheimer’s,” she said, a reference to her father, Sargent..
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Loss of the News – The Fabric of Our Democracy in Peril

Posted on April 30, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

The below story from the Associated Press is nearly as disturbing as the news from Pakistan and the debacle that Baxter’s move to globalization of Heparin manufacture has been. Before I went to law school, I went to Journalism school, journalism school in Chicago, at Northwestern University. I aspired to..
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Comment from Reader on Our Webpages

Posted on April 16, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:08 AM, MICHAEL SHELLER wrote: Dear Mr. Johnson, I simply had to stop all activity and send you this e-mail. Please let me explain: Around the very turn of this new decade I suffered a brain injury. I have no memory of the accident at..
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Long Term Care Insurance

Posted on March 31, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 3/31/2009 7:21 PM One option for addressing the high costs of long-term care is to buy an insurance policy. Policies can cover the cost of hiring someone to help the recipient with in-home cleaning, cooking, bathing and dressing. Coverage may also include assisted living in a facility outside the..
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Natasha Richardson Details Reviewed

Posted on March 29, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Perhaps no story impacting brain injury has impacted the public’s consciousness more than that of Natasha Richardson. I could write on this from dozens of angles and perhaps will in the coming months. The best news story (as opposed to commentary) on her injury and subsequent death is at the..
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