Girl’s Brain Injury Acting as Cause on Childrens Brain Injury
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Sarah Jane, a 4 year old Washington girl, was violently shaken by a nurse when she was 5 days old. Sarah Jane Donohue’s brain is so damaged she cannot speak or crawl. She lives in [...]
continue readingNebraska to Recieve Traumatic Brain Injury Grant
Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Nebraska will receive $250,000 each year for the next four years for traumatic brain injury services.
Nebraska was one of 16 states awarded a new federal Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Implementation Partnership Grant from the U.S. [...]
VA Closing Texas Brain Injury Program
Posted on Sunday, May 31st, 2009
VA closing Austin, Texas Brain Injury Program
The federal Department of Veterans Affairs is shutting down an Austin-based, multimillion-dollar research program that studies the effects of brain injuries on veterans.
The Brain Imaging and Recovery Laboratory will [...]
California Brain Injury Case Reaches Settlement
Posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
California family settles $20 million traumatic brain injury lawsuit after son falls at BK.
The lawsuit involving the traumatic brain injury of a now 12 year old boy who fell while playing on an indoor playground [...]
NHLBI stops enrollment in traumatic brain injury study
Posted on Saturday, May 16th, 2009
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has stopped enrollment into a clinical trial testing the effects of highly concentrated saline solutions on patients with severe traumatic brain injury [...]
continue readingProving You Have a Brain Injury
Posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
In our technologically driven world, a traumatically brain injured person, fortunately, has access to an array of psychological, physical, and mental tests that determine the location, extent and severity of impairment/deficits within each brain function [...]
continue readingTraumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Elects Shana DeCaro, Treasurer
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The AAJ Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group was formed approximately twenty years ago by attorneys with a special interest in representing individuals who have sustained traumatic brain damage. We meet several times a year to [...]
continue readingSeasonal Programmed Brain Cell Death Foiled In Living Birds
Posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers [...]
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