Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

Unlike Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, Type 3 diabetes isnt an official clinical diagnosis. Its not an established medical Unlike Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, Type 3 diabetes isnt an official clinical diagnosis. Continue reading →

With COVID-19 dominating the news cycle, it can be easy to forget that heart attacks, strokes and all kinds of other medical emergencies are still happening every day. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission Continue reading →

Abnormal blood clots Jabbour and other doctors say COVID-19 is causing a lot of abnormal blood clots around the brain, heart and blood vessels in general. This is such a big problem that medical staff at Jefferson are thinking about preemptively starting COVID-19 patients on blood thinners, according to Jabbour. Among a group of COVID-19 patients in intensive care at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, some are literally clotting off every blood vessel in their body, said transplant surgery fellow Hunter Moore. Continue reading →

A DEVOTED son has donated 5,000 to a Covid-19 emergency fund for NHS staff at the hospital where his father had life-saving treatment. Tim OSullivan and his wife Kacey ODriscoll, on behalf of the Danny Sullivan Group, have donated the money to The National Brain Appeals Emergency Fund for NHS staff at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London Continue reading →

As more people around the world are infected with Covid-19, were learning that the novel coronavirus can not only cause severe respiratory illness, but also can attack just about every major organ system in the body. And lately doctors have been sounding the alarm about a disturbing new outcome: blood clots and strokes, which are striking even healthy young people with no known risk factors and sometimes no other symptom of the virus Continue reading →

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The officials describe the decision as extremely sensitive because of the attention the issue received after President Donald Trump dismissed the injuries as "not very serious," when they were first reported. The Pentagon and Trump initially said no service members were injured or killed in the attack on al Asad air base but it subsequently became clear that many sustained traumatic brain injuries after blast waves from the Iranian explosions hit the bunkers they were sheltering in. The number of TBI cases rose steadily in the weeks after the attack to 110, according to the Defense Department Continue reading →

Two top scientists at theUniversity of Virginia School of Medicineare seeking answers to questions about spinal cord injuries that have long frustrated the development of effective treatments. The scientists, Jonathan Kipnis and Kodi Ravichandran, are teaming up to understand why critical nerve cells called neurons continue to die after spinal cord injuries. So little is known that doctors arent even certain if the bodys immune response is beneficial or harmful. Continue reading →

The ability to detect smells predicts recovery and long-term survival in patients who have suffered severe brain injury, a new study co-led from Cambridge University has discovered. The project leads say that a simple, inexpensive sniff test could help doctors to accurately diagnose and determine treatment plans for patients with disorders of consciousness Continue reading →