Sep
28
2006
Farmington Hills site is planned
April 21, 2006
Name: JULIE EDGAR
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A chain of centers that treats people with brain injuries is opening another inpatient location in Farmington Hills in the fall.
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Sep
28
2006
PORTLAND, Oregon - Oregon Health & Science University is part of the National Institutes of Health- funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC). This group of 11 regional medical centers across the United States and Canada seeks to find promising scientific and clinical advances to improve survival from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.
Source: http://www.centralpointnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=330366&cp=4310
Sep
27
2006
The ARC of Northwestern Vermont is holding its 29th Annual Pancake Breakfast as part of the Maple Festival on April 29th and 30th. The breakfast will be held at the St Albans City School Cafeteria on Bellows Street from 7:00 a.m. to Noon; Adults $6.00 and Children 3 to 10 will cost $3.00, toddlers two and younger are free.
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Sep
26
2006
Name : Richard Kenney
Special for The Republic
Apr. 15, 2006 12:00 AM
Kelly Ramella helps people focus on their abilities, not their disabilities.
When they enroll in her Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation course at Arizona State University in Tempe, they quickly learn her message.
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Sep
26
2006
Sevgi Saran/The Ithacan
Lindsay Pendergast, a graduate student, serves water to Anna Orak, a client at the Sir Alexander Ewing Speech and Hearing Clinic.
Sevgi Saran/The Ithacan
Ray Miller, left, rolls dice for a game he is playing with Anna Orak at the clinic. Both use speech-generating devices.
April 27, 2006
After his high school graduation, Ray Miller, 43, hit his head in a motorcycle accident. Miller suffered traumatic brain injury, which impaired his ability to speak.
For him, life would never be the same. Because of the accident, Miller also has memory loss and is disabled. Because of the pain, the smile on his face disappears when he sits down, stands up or walks.
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Sep
26
2006
New Mexico Business Weekly - April 26, 2006
Maas BioIAB LLC has received a $50,000 grant to continue development of its cyclosporin neuroprotection products.
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Sep
25
2006
Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) - Apr. 26, 2006
DRUG developer Neuren Pharmaceuticals has jointly filed a patent with the US Army for its brain injury treatment.
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Sep
22
2006
Published on Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Name : Cynthia Hoffman
Kansas State Collegian
Chris Wallace isn’t afraid to tell people what he thinks. He said he only wishes they could understand what he was saying.
“Not being able to talk fluently is a challenge I face every day,” Wallace said, slowly and tediously forming each word and then typing it in his LINK Assistive Talking device for clarification. “I ain’t afraid to tell it like it is. I just wish people would not judge a person for talking incorrectly.”
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Sep
22
2006
By Jessica Wehrman
Staff Writer
WASHINGTON | In what has become a key annual lobbying effort, nearly 100 leaders from the Dayton Development Coalition will trek to Washington, D.C., next week to present lawmakers with a $231.6 million laundry list of federal projects they consider priorities for the region.
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Aug
01
2006
Name : BRYAN LEE
Published: 04.24.2006
From Calculus III to a first- grade level of learning was the traumatic aftermath of Lee Katterman’s freak bicycle accident nine years ago.
Becoming a successful Tucson businessman today is the result of a long and painful road back.
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