Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

DEMENTIA could be treatable in the same way as breast cancer detected at the earliest stages as experts hailed real progress in treatment and screening. Professor Craig Ritchie,a world-leading authority in dementia based at the Universityof Edinburgh, said advances in blood-based biomarkers are opening the door to reliable and effective screening and early treatment for neurodegenerative disease. He said screening for the earliest stages of Alzheimers Disease is about five to 10 years away but could be piloted earlier if plans to launch four new dedicated brain health clinics are able to progress. Continue reading →

Twenty-two research projects led by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and affiliated health authority research centres were awarded $15 million from the Canadian Institute of Health Research Project Grant Spring 2020 competition. The Project Grant program supports researchers in building and conducting health-related research and knowledge translation projects, covering all areas of health. In addition to the Project Grant Spring 2020 competition, one Faculty of Medicine project was awarded a priority announcement bridge grant of $100,000 Continue reading →

A CLUBGOER suffered a life-threatening head injury when he was punched to the ground on his way to McDonalds in Keighley town centre, Bradford Crown Court heard. He was transferred from Airedale Hospital to Leeds General Infirmary where emergency surgery was carried out to treat a large skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. Continue reading →

MODESTO (CBS13) The 7-year-old Modesto boy at the center of a child abuse case has been left in a coma due to the injuries, a criminal complaint against the childs mother and boyfriend reveals. Back on Sept. 13, Modesto police responded to a medical aid call at an apartment in the 1900 block of Oakdale Road Continue reading →

Matt Burke has been a General Motors graphic designer for 15 years, where his work is mostly digital. Outside the office, he works in mixed media art for more hands-on side projects Continue reading →

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VIKEN, Sweden, Sept. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study on TIKOMED's lead drug candidate, ILB, addressing one of the underlying causes of neurodegeneration in acute and chronic diseases was published in Antioxidants today. The data from the rodent model studying severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI), showed that a single post-injury injection of ILB has beneficial effects on the metabolic damages caused by sTBI Continue reading →

DEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Riverside Community Care (www.riversidecc.org), a leader in behavioral healthcare and human services helping more than 40,000 people across Massachusetts and over a million people around the world, has been named to Forbes' 2020 list of America's Best-in-State Employers. Riverside's 1,700 clinicians, social workers, and support staff offer a wide range of mental healthcare, developmental and brain injury services, early childhood and youth programs, addiction treatment, trauma response, and more Continue reading →

The boys parents say it is too soon after the accident last summer to say what will happen in terms of recovery. File photograph: Collins Three doctors have told the High Court they believe a young boy is in a vegetative state after suffering a catastrophic brain injury following a road collision some months ago. Continue reading →

A hospital wants High Court orders permitting it to withhold invasive interventions and administer a palliative care regime for a boy whom they believe has little prospect of a meaningful recovery after suffering a catastrophic brain injury in a car crash. The young boys parents oppose the orders, including ones which would allow the hospital not to resuscitate him in the event of cardiac arrest. His doctors say such invasive interventions will not alter his prognosis, may cause him pain and distress and are not ethically justified Continue reading →