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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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On-line Guide to Understanding Brain Disease

Posted on April 15, 2009
I just came across a very informative web site sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes which has information on hundreds of brain disorders and links to clinical trials and updated news on the brain. Click: brain research and brain disorders for more information.

Up to date information on learning disabilties

Posted on April 15, 2009
Up to date information on learning disabilities can be found at LD OnLine. The site produced by the Washington DC public service broadcasting network, WETA provides up to date research based information on learning disabilities to parents, educators, and people with LD and ADHD...

Blood screening test to detect traumatic brain injury

Posted on April 11, 2009
According to a paper published in this month's Journal of Emergency Nursing, a blood screening test is being developed to detect a traumatic brain injury as an alternative to CT scans. The screening called S-100B is a serum protein bio-marker that rises sharply following a brain injury...

New York State Awarded $1 Million Federal Grant to Improve Life for New Yorkers With Traumatic Brain Injuries

Posted on April 11, 2009
To improve the quality of life for New Yorkers with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), the New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced today it has been awarded a four-year, $1 million grant by the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration...

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Retired Hockey Player Donates Brain For Medical Research

Posted on April 10, 2009
Former, NHL player, Keith Primeau, a victim of repeated concussions has decided to bequeath his brain to the Sports Legacy Institute, an organization dedicated to studying the effects of concussions and other sports-related brain injuries. Upon his death, it will be examined by the Center for Traumatic Encephalopathy at the Boston University Schooll of Medicine...

HBO Newsmagazine Seeking Information on High School Football Players With Long Term Disability Following Concussions

Posted on April 06, 2009
HBO's news magazine Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is researching a story on concussions and football in High School and Middle School age players. They are looking to interview players and family members of players who suffered long term disability following game related concussions...

North American Brain Injury Association: Call For Abstracts

Posted on April 05, 2009
The North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) is now accepting abstracts for the Seventh Annual Conference on Brain Injury which will be held at the Austin Downtown Hilton Hotel on October 14-17, 2009. All accepted abstracts will be published in the "Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation"...

Never Shake A Baby

Posted on April 04, 2009
The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome has announced the launch of their new web site. The Center has significantly expanded the site and it can be accessed by clicking here .

Virginia Brain Injury Conference

Posted on April 03, 2009
The 32nd Annual Professionals' Conference on Rehabilitation of the Adult and Child with Traumatic Brain Injury: Practical Solutions to Real World Problems will be held June 4-5 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA). The conference will feature presentations relating to innovation and technology, and clinical research from the NIDRR- funded TBI Model Systems of Care...

According to a press release issued

Posted on April 02, 2009
According to a press release issued by the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying the benefits and safety of administering a highly concentrated form of saline solution in the ambulance (before hospital arrival) to trauma patients suffering from shock due to severe bleeding...

Training Coaches on Concussion Signs and Symptoms

Posted on April 01, 2009
A bill has been introduced in the California legislature that would require all school coaches to be trained in detecting the signs and symptoms of concussions and othersignificant brain trauma as well as in the second impact syndrome. The legislation was introduced in the California assembly by Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Haywood...

World Brain Injury Congress Call For Abstracts

Posted on March 31, 2009
The eighth World Congress on Brain Injury will be held in Washington DC from March 10-14, 2010. The world congress is sponsored by the International Brain Injury Association. (IBIA). They have just issued a request for abstracts in connection with this congress...

Free Brain Videos

Posted on March 30, 2009
Learned from boing-boing of free videos posted by Stanford University from professors whose research explores the human brain. The video topics include: Building a circuit diagram for the brain; Understanding blindness and the brain; Brain computer interfaces; Controlling the brain with light; Deafness-emerging strategies for a cure...

Brain Injury Association of New York State Annual Conference

Posted on March 29, 2009
This year's 27th annual conference of the Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) is scheduled to be held on June 4-5, 2009 in Albany, New York at the Marriott Hotel. This year's featured speaker is Lee Woodruff, co-author with her husband, Bob Woodruff of the memoir, In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing...

New York State Program to Examine Brain Injury In the Military

Posted on March 28, 2009
The Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) is sponsoring a conference examining the impact of traumatic brain injury in returning service members. Some of the topics for discussion include: the clinical and psychosocial implication of brain injury sustained in combat the challenges faced by wounded warriors returning to the community the overlap among Traumatic Brain Injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other conditions The conference is scheduled to be held in New York City on April 21, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the OMRDD auditorium located at 75 Morton Street, Manhattan...

This week's brain injury legislative update

Posted on March 28, 2009
The Brain Injury Association of Americas has requested that I publish this week's brain injury legislative update: Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Awareness Day on Capitol Hill On Wednesday, BIAA participated in a day-long awareness day on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force...

New Sesame Street Program Deals With Traumatic Brain Injury and Other Injuries to Returning Service Members

Posted on March 27, 2009
Thanks to BrainLine for tipping me off to a new PBS program on difficulties faced by returning service members including the "invisible injury" of traumatic brain damage. According to BrainLine, Queen Latifah, John Mayer, and Elmo are teaming up for a new prime-time special entitled "Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change...

Alzheimer's Drug May Prevent Damage Caused By Traumatic Brain Injuries

Posted on March 26, 2009
A new class of Alzheimer's disease drugs may prevent long-term damage from traumatic brain injury, suggests a study of mice by Georgetown University Medical Center researchers. The drugs -- gamma-secretase inhibitors -- are designed to target amyloid plaque that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, according to background information in the study...

North American Brain Injury Conference: Save The Date

Posted on March 25, 2009
The North American Brain Injury Association (NABIS) has announced that the Seventh Annual NABIS Conference on Brain Injury will be held at the Austin Downtown Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas. This year NABIS will be holding a full-day Pediatric Symposium on Brain Injury on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, with the full Conference taking place from Thursday, October 15, through Saturday, October 17, 2009...

Fish May Be Brain Food

Posted on March 24, 2009
Teenage boys who regularly eat fish may be doing their brains some good, a new study suggests. Swedish researchers found that among nearly 5,000 15-year-old boys they surveyed, those who ate fish more than once per week tended to score higher on intelligence tests three years later...

Brain Injury Victim Dies In Nursing Home As A Result of Nursing Home Abuse

Posted on March 23, 2009
An Arizona jury awarded a verdict of $11 million to the widow of a 36-year-old man with traumatic brain injury who died after ingesting foreign objects while in the care of a Phoenix assisted living facility. Earl Scherrer suffered a severe traumatic brain injury as a result of a car accident...

Brain Injury Legislative Summary

Posted on March 22, 2009
The following is presented at the request of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA): BIAA Unveils Legislative Agenda for 2009 This week, in preparation for Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill, BIAA unveiled its legislative agenda. With the impending healthcare reform movement looming, BIAA has made access to brain injury care the cornerstone of this year's priorities...

Concussion Information

Posted on March 21, 2009
With all the controversy surrounding the recent death and injuries sustained by Natasha Richardson, it would be useful for all to review the free information provided by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC)regarding sports related concussions. To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the ?Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports? initiative to offer information about concussions?a type of traumatic brain injury?to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports...

Increase Brain Injury Funding in 2010 Federal Budget

Posted on March 20, 2009
The following action alert has been issued by the Brain Injury Association of America regarding the need to contact your Congress person without delay to urge increased funding for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in next year's budget. Appropriations Action on Federal TBI Programs Just Around The Corner Over the next few weeks, both the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees will be working to craft the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education Appropriations bill, which will provide the funding allocation for programs authorized through the TBI Act and for NIDRR's TBI-related research programs, including TBI Model Systems...

Autopsy Results Confirm that Death of Natasha Richardson Could Have Been Averted

Posted on March 20, 2009
An autopsy of the actress Natasha Richardson conducted by the New York City Medical Examiner has concluded that that she died of a brain hemorrhage caused by ?blunt impact? to her head. The autopsy suggests that the fall tore an artery in Ms. Richardson?s head, resulting in bleeding in an area between the skull and the lining covering the brain, called the dura mater...

Did Natasha Richardson Receive Proper Care From the Ski Area and the Doctors and Hospitals Who Treated Her?

Posted on March 19, 2009
As an attorney who represents victims of brain trauma including brain injuries caused by medical mismanagement, I have been asked to provide my observations concerning the potential for medical malpractice in the care or lack of care that Ms. Richardson received as well as the potential liability of the ski area for her injuries and death...

Natasha Richardson Dies Following Fall on Ski Slope/The Myths of Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on March 18, 2009
It is with sadness that I have learned this evening that actress, Natasha Richardson has passed away from head injuries she received when she fell and struck her head on the beginner's ski slope on Tuesday. She was not wearing a ski helmet at the time she fell to the ground...

Natasha Richardson May Have Suffered 'Talk and Die' Syndrome

Posted on March 17, 2009
Reportedly, Natasha Richardson suffered a relatively minor fall on the ski slope resulting in severe brain trauma. She fell and struck her head, but did not lose consciousness. She initially told those at the scene that she was fine but she began to deteriorate within the next hour ultimately going into a coma...

Brain Injury and Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Posted on March 15, 2009
One of the leading causes of traumatic brain injury are falls to patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Fortunately, many of these falls are preventable if proper safeguards are implemented. The latest issue of the Journal, Geriatrics discusses new guidelines for the prevention of falls in medical facilities...

NYC Epilepsy Education Program Registration Now Open

Posted on March 14, 2009
Registration is now open for the FACES (Finding A Cure For Epilepsy) 2009 New York City Education Program. All programs will be held at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, New York. The program again is as follows: Schedule Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Navigating the Educational Needs of Children with Epilepsy Presenter: David Salsberg, Psy...

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