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New approaches to brain injuries tested - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times
Navy Times Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:58 AM PDT
CORONADO, Calif. â€" Naval Special Warfare Command wants to figure out a better way to treat brain injuries â€" and perhaps ward off later post-traumatic combat stress.

Mail Online UK James Cracknell's wife found out she was pregnant two weeks after cycle crash nearly killed him 1 hr ago
BBC Radio 1 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:38 AM PDT
Olympic medallist James Cracknell says he is "lucky to be alive" after receiving a skull fracture in a bike accident in the US. Cracknell, 38, suffered bruising to his brain after a truck hit his bike. He had been in the US filming for the Discovery channel.

Lundbeck Launches New Research And Development Strategy
Medical News Today Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:16 AM PDT
H. Lundbeck A / S (Lundbeck) is now implementing a new research and development strategy that will also in future enable the company to deliver breakthrough drugs capable of improving the lives of patients with brain diseases. The strategy will bolster Lundbeck's ambition to remain among the world's foremost pharmaceutical companies in the treatment of brain diseases. With the new approach ...

Brain injuries raise questions about future of football
CTV.ca Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:40 AM PDT
Owen Thomas wasn't an NFL superstar. He didn't even play for a big U.S. college team. But now, months after his passing, the way the young defensive lineman died is casting a shadow over football.

Video Gaming Prepares Brain For Bigger Tasks
Medical News Today Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:33 AM PDT
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation of the brain's cortical network in young men with significant experience playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor skills. The findings are published in the October 2010 ...

Waiting, hoping for a miracle
The Des Moines Register Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:03 AM PDT
Maria Teresa Urquizu-Jurado passed her hand over her brother’s forehead, gently stroking his hair. She wet his lips with a small, wet sponge on a stick. He was silent and still. "He is not consciously there," she said of her brother, Juan Carlos Urquizu, 40, lying in a Mercy Medical Center intensive care bed. "The doctors said he suffered brain damage." Police say at least three teenagers beat ...




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