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Malpractice jury awards $6.25M The News Journal Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:53 AM PDT A Superior Court jury this week found a New Castle doctor negligent in her care of a newborn boy -- resulting in brain damage -- and awarded the child's family more than $6 million in damages. Paralyzed NU grad keeps fighting with new book The Grass Valley Union Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:38 AM PDT Like a floored prizefighter, Jill Mason has to yank herself off the canvas to battle in the bout that is now her life. The Nevada Union High School graduate was left paralyzed and with a traumatic brain injury on Easter 2004, after a drunk driver hit her and killed her soulmate, Alan Liu, while they were bicycling in Santa Rosa. After a lengthy recovery that included Mason relearning how to feed ... New Title Says Vegetative Patients Often Experience Active Brain State PRWeb via Yahoo! News Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:01 AM PDT Author hopes to raise awareness about the need for a strong patient advocate New speech pathologist presents program at recent Clarinda Kiwanis Club meeting Clarinda Herald-Journal Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00 AM PDT Presenter at the March 17 meeting of the Clarinda Kiwanis Club was Travis Miller of Maryville, Mo., Speech Pathologist at the Clarinda Regional Health Center, Goldenrod Manor and Westridge Quality Care. He works in Clarinda Monday, Wednesday and Friday and in Creston on Tuesday and Thursday. Some of the things he does in medical settings are assisting stroke victims, those with traumatic brain ... Your Letters Centre Daily Times Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:56 PM PDT Choose to learn more Suicide is not a choice. It is a result of a devastating brain disorder ca Coppell resident dies after skiing accident Coppell Gazette Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:55 PM PDT Taylor Storch, 13, of Coppell was declared brain dead on Monday after an accident while skiing Sunday on the intermediate Latigo trail at Beaver Creek Resort in Avon, Colo. Analysis shows no cancer cluster, but residents skeptical Flower Mound Leader Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:48 PM PDT A Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) analysis has found that the occurrence of leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and childhood brain cancers in two zip codes in Flower Mound is within the expected ranges for males and females. Bulletin Board Elk Grove Citizen Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:16 PM PDT Laguna Creek Racquet Club is sponsoring a workout to help fight brain cancer in memory of Jim Stebbins. This workout will take place on Saturday, May 1, from 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Laguna Creek Racquet Club. Stebbins lost his battle with brain cancer on Nov. 2, 2009, after fighting for 15 months.

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