Monthly Archives: September 2006
Accident survivor graduates from MUCTC
Name: Antwon Pinkston
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON– On Oct. 25, 1996, Erin Moreland’s family was shocked by tragic news — that their teenage daughter was seriously injured in a car accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury with multiple fractures to her body.
Oak Park council supports parents of special needs children
Group serves as guiding light in confusing times
Name : Avi Rutschman avi@theacorn.com
The Special Education Advisory Council of Oak Park wants to assure parents of special needs students that they don’t need to feel hopelessly lost when dealing with local education agencies.
Boston Life Sciences, Inc. Solidifies Comprehensive Axon Regeneration Position with Children’s Hospital Boston
Thursday May 11, 12:30 pm ET
Worldwide Licensing and Sponsored Research Agreements Focused on Axon Regeneration for Functional Recovery in CNS Disorders Should Enhance BLSI’s Intellectual Property Portfolio
HOPKINTON, Mass., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boston Life Sciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLSI – News), a biotechnology company focused on diagnostic and therapeutic products for diseases of the Central Nervous System (CNS), today announced that it had entered into exclusive, worldwide license agreements and sponsored research agreements with Children’s Hospital Boston for axon regeneration technologies under development in the laboratories of Dr. Larry Benowitz and Dr. Zhigang He.
Luci Center benefit will celebrate horses, new start
Name : Walt Reichert/Sentinel-News Associate Editor
Amateur photographer Molly Raper has captured hundreds of horses on film in nearly every kind of setting, from wild horses splashing in water on the beaches of North Carolina to a pair of therapy horses rough-playing in a pasture in Shelby County.
Graduate enters field that helped her find her voice
By David Tisdale
Brooke Jorns Davis of Hattiesburg will walk the walk at graduation today at the University of Southern Mississippi, only because the university’s Children’s Center for Communication and Development enabled her to talk the talk.
As a child, Davis had an articulation disorder that prevented her from engaging in normal speech.
Continued success in traumatic brain injury programme
AsiaNet 5/1/2006
NEUREN Pharmaceuticals Friday announced that it has jointly filed a new patent with the US Army’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) as a result of new experiments showing its compound, NNZ-2566, significantly reduces non-convulsive seizures following traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Support groups
Monday, May 08, 2006
HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS
Alabama Head Injury Foundation
For people with traumatic brain injuries and their families and friends. AHIF Small Places, United Way Building, 3600 Eighth Ave. South, 6:30 p.m., third Thursdays.
ALS Strength and Courage Care Group Supports comprehensive services and research for adults and families affected by Lou Gehrig’s disease. Sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 4887 Valleydale Road, 10:30 a.m., third Saturday of the month. Free. For more information, call 823-8191 or 800-525-6793, or visit www.als.mdausa.org.
Physicians And Engineers Pool Resources To Prevent Stroke
A professor at the University of Houston and his research students are working with physicians and scientists at the Methodist Neurological Institute on new technology to help identify which brain aneurysms are at highest risk of rupture and could cause a stroke.
Proposed study seeks a better way to treat blood loss
Trauma – Doctors want to test hypertonic saline on accident victims in Portland and other cities
Name : ANDY DWORKIN
Doctors hope that the traumatic accidents of thousands in Oregon and nationwide will answer a vexing question: How to best help people who have lost lots of blood?
Health notes
Wednesday
Radiant Research-Akron — Offers free cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 754 S. Cleveland Ave., Suite 200, Mogadore. Call 330-628-6001 for an appointment.
