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CDC Looks To Create Video Library Of Those With TBI

Posted on March 17, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching an initiative that is in some ways very similar to my own project, TBI Voices. The CDC is asking people who have suffered traumatic brain injury, TBI, to submit their own videos about their experiences, according to Stars and Stripes. I’ve..
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Ex-Wisconsin First Lady Dreyfus Dies After Surgery For Brain Injury

Posted on March 16, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

It happens so often with the elderly: They stumble and hit their heads, sustaining traumatic brain injury.  And last week it happened to Joyce Dreyfus, the wife of former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Dreyfus. And it was fatal. Dreyfus, 85, fell and hit her head at an assisted living facility in..
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Friends Help TBI Recovery For This Survivor

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Friends Help TBI Recovery: Kelly Part Thirty Two In part thirty-two and the conclusion of Kelly’s story, she talks about how friends help TBI recovery and what part her friends took in helping her recover. We’ve been doing this a long time and I always want to give the people who contribute..
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Afghan Slayings: Deadly Mix Of Soldier, TBI, PTSD

Posted on March 15, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

PTSD and Brain Injury May Have Contributed to Slayings Last weekend when I heard that a U.S. staff sergeant was suspected of murdering 16 Afghan villagers — including women and children — in cold blood, I had a pretty good idea what had happened. I suspected that this sergeant at..
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Taxi Partitions, No Seat Belts Add Up To Head Injuries In Cabs

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Anyone who has ever been in a Manhattan taxi knows it can be a hair-raising experience. And it can also be a very dangerous one, because of the plastic partitions in cabs that are meant to protect their drivers from robberies and assaults. The problem is that most passengers don’t..
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Time Management After Severe TBI Another Brain Injury Issue

Posted on March 14, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Time Management After Severe TBI: Kelly Part Thirty One Kelly goes on to discuss time management after severe TBI and how she has very little trouble with it.  She talks about how routines help her with this. Do you have problems with time management after severe TBI? No. How do you handle..
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Toddler ‘Angel’ Dies Of Brain Injury After Surviving Indiana Tornado

Posted on March 11, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

For awhile at least, Angel Babcock was a miracle baby. But her story, a tale of hope and survival after tornadoes tore across the Midwest, ended in sorrow earlier this week. Babcock, a 15-month -old who was found in an Indiana field next to the bodies of her family, died..
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Skier Zoricic Dies Of Brain Injury From Crash During World Cup Race

Posted on March 10, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Canadian ski cross racer Nick Zoricic died Saturday of head injuries he sustained in a crash during a World Cup event in Grindelwald, Switzerland, officials reported. As a press release from the International Ski Federation (FIS) said, Zoricic “crashed heavily,” and the  Ski Cross World Cup this weekend “was overshadowed..
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OSHA Fines Company $11,600 In Death In Colorado Drilling Accident

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Federal safety regulators have issued $11,675 in fines stemming from a horrific drill accident that killed a man on a construction site in Aspen Highlands, Colo., according to the Aspen Daily News.   http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/151849 The fines were levied against Hayward Baker, a national construction company, for the Aug. 11 death..
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The Dangers Of Searching For Oil Are Many, And Deadly

Posted on March 9, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Working in the oil-drilling industry seems to be up there with being part of a bomb-detonation squad in terms of safety these days.   In February and March so far, I’m aware of three deaths in accidents on oil fields or rigs in North Dakota alone.   And last month,..
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