News tagged with 'Head and Brain Injuries'

A group of military veterans filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government on Wednesday claiming they were illegally denied disability benefits despite being diagnosed with severe cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, that should qualify them for lifetime free care.

Making antilock brakes standard on motorcycles could save thousands of lives a year, concludes the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in this report. 

A newly discovered gene that increases the risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s by as much as 77 percent has been discovered. It may also present researchers with a target for therapy.

Soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are not getting the mental health benefits they are entitled to, accuse veterans groups in a lawsuit. But today that action was dismissed by a federal judge who said district court is not the venue for action. Meanwhile 18 soldiers a day reportedly commit suicide. 

A survey of thousands of elderly Americans by the CDC, finds that falling can lead to more than a broken hip. Traumatic brain injuries resulted in 8,000 deaths and 56,000 hospitalizations in 2005.

SAFE HOME 101- Homes older than 15 years may not be constructed with ground fault circuit interruptors (GFCIs), which prevent electrocution when electricity and water meet with you in the middle. If GFCIs were installed in every U.S. home, nearly 70 percent of the approximate 400 electrocutions that occurred last year could have been prevented.

Mice with Parkinson's disease showed the greatest improvement when their cloned cells were repaired and put back in the mice.  They returned to normal movement, giving great hope to research that uses repaired cells cloned from the patient's own body to reduce the chance of rejection.

No one knows exactly how many young people have died from playing the deadly “choking game,”  but the CDC counts at least 82 mostly young teen boys from 1985 to 2007.  Luke Austin is not counted among them even though his mother knows the deadly game took her 13-year-old's life.

Epsom salts can cut the rates of preterm labor and therefore reduce the risk of the delivery of brain damaged children, a study finds. This study replicates those from an Australian study in 2003.

50,000 returning U.S. veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting at least 9 percent have post-traumatic stress disorder. Other reports say the numbers are higher.

The Rhode Island Hospital has had three wrong-site brain surgeries so far this year, even though it has recently tightened up procedures. The focus needs to be on the neurosurgery department and its procedures and protocols.

Professional boxers and football players who continually suffer blows to the head may increase their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. According to a new report published in this month's issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, mice that were subjected to head trauma developed a protein deposit, amylo

Researchers at Duke University believe they have discovered a direct correlation between head injuries early in life and the onset of depression years later. The study, published in this month's issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, examined 1,718 World War II veterans who were hospitalized for head injuries. Over

In what could be a major breakthrough in the race for a Parkinson's disease cure, researchers announced this week that embryonic stem cells injected into the brains of rats with the disorder helped alleviate symptoms. Harvard Medical School researchers and doctors at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts found that embryon

Consumer action group Public Citizen is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop the practice of using brain tissue, also known as dura mater, from cadavers to assist with surgery. The group claims that the technique increases the risk of spreading Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of mad co