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Legislation to Delay Harmful Medicaid Regulations Added to War Spending Bill

Also this week, Democrats included legislation which would place a moratorium until March 2009 on several harmful Medicaid regulations (H.R. 5613), in the FY 2008 war supplemental appropriations bill. BIAA continues to strongly endorse H.R. 5613 and supports efforts to keep the bill in the war supplemental legislation as it moves towards final passage, likely within the next two weeks. Continue Reading »

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This recent article focuses on the “Hidden Causes of Social Disorders”, tying social symptoms to traumatic brain and head injuries.

Researchers studying brain injury believe they’ve found a common thread running through many cases of seemingly unrelated social problems: a long-forgotten blow to the head.

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On Tuesday, the Senate passed a slightly revised version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986), following House approval of the same bill last week. Important wounded warrior provisions related to TBI care remain unchanged in the new version, which President Bush is expected to sign into law shortly.

The revised bill contains new language altering a provision in the original bill which expanded the rights of victims to sue foreign governments designated by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism.

The White House unexpectedly announced on December 28, 2007, that President Bush would not sign the original bill because it included a provision which could allow plaintiffs to freeze Iraq government assets in the United States while their claims against Iraq were being litigated (Iraq was listed as a state sponsor of terrorism under Saddam Hussein’s regime).

One of BIAA’s policy goals for 2008 will be to monitor the implementation of the important TBI provisions contained in this bill. (The December 14, 2007 edition of Policy Corner contains more detailed information on these TBI provisions. You can access this issue, as well as all other archived issues of Policy Corner, by visiting BIAA’s webpage at http://www.biausa.org/policycorner.htm).

Researchers studying brain injury believe they’ve found a common thread running through many cases of seemingly unrelated social problems: a long-forgotten blow to the head.

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Serious head injuries among alpine skiers and snowboarders have risen over the past 15 years, reveals research in Injury Prevention.

The increase has coincided with faster speed and the inclusion of more jumping and acrobatics as the norm in these sports, say the authors.
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By Thomas A. Sharon, R.N., M.P.H. and Joel Passick, M.D., J.D. (guest co-author)

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2007) — A study of Vietnam war veterans who suffered brain injuries during the conflict has found that the men show a faster decline in their cognitive functioning as they grow older than veterans without such injuries. Continue Reading »

In the year 1990, The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) affirmed the rights of citizens with disabilities which makes American society more accessible. It paved the way for the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision, which led to President Bush’s new Freedom Initiative. This initiative is about getting federal agencies to coordinate disability services. It includes systems-change grants to states, which has helped brain injury get to the “proverbial table” in many states.

Name: PAMELA GOULD
During their first few days in the United States, 13 officers from the Iraqi army visited the traditional tourist spots of the nation’s capital.

They walked to the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the Washington Monument and the White House, and spent time in the Smithsonian Institution. Continue Reading »