Oct 11 2006
Sunday, May 7, 2006
By TOM VOGT, Columbian staff writer
Most people who participate in medical studies get a chance to weigh the pros and cons of a new drug or technique being used on them.
It’s called informed consent. It’s hard to get when an unconscious accident victim has been rescued from a crumpled car.
Oct 10 2006
Moms of children who suffered brain injuries united to provide assistance to parents of young trauma patients hospitalized at Shands Jacksonville and Shands at the University of Florida.
By RON WOOD
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE - On a quick walk through Shands Jacksonville’s pediatric intensive care unit, Tracy East almost shudders when she spies a child in bed hooked up to tubes and wires.
Oct 06 2006
May 07,2006
ROSELEE PAPANDREA
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Greg Acosta was the kid who made everybody laugh.
During his senior year at Jacksonville High School in 2005, he was voted class clown and most unforgettable in the yearbook.
Oct 02 2006
MU program expands access to therapy for brain-injury patients.
Name: SRUTHI KUNNEL
The MU telehealth program, which helps people with brain injuries receive care from people closer to them, matched 70 traumatic brain-injury patients from rural communities with clinicians who received training from neuropsychologists through video teleconferencing
Oct 02 2006
Name: Carl Butler, Daily Post
A NORTH Wales dad yesterday admitted killing his 14-week-old baby son.
A court heard how David Robert James Price threw the little boy onto the sofa in a fit of “frustration and temper”. The youngster died of severe brain injuries.
Oct 02 2006
Wednesday May 10, 8:00 am ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(CCNMatthews - May 10, 2006) - Fasken Martineau is pleased to announce the 14 participating companies for the 9th annual 2006 Fasken Martineau Technology and Life Sciences Forum.
Oct 02 2006
Rehabilitation
Chronic stroke patients benefit from robotic upper-limb rehabilitation,
Intense, short-term, upper-limb robotic therapy improved motor outcomes among chronic stroke patients. Investigators enrolled 30 patients with upper-limb impairment due to stroke. Over 3 weeks, 18 sessions of robot-assisted therapy were delivered with the use of a robotic exercise device. Significant improvements were observed for severely impaired participants, which indicates that improvement is not limited to individuals with moderate impairments. Moderately and severely impaired patients tolerated intense, frequent, and repetitive treatment. This information is useful for determining the optimal target population, intensity, and duration of robotic therapy and the necessary sample size for a larger trial.
Sep 29 2006
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.
Sep 29 2006
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.
Sep 29 2006
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?
