Archive for September, 2006

Sep 29 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.

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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).

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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?

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Sep 29 2006

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.

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