Posts tagged head injury

• New Ski Helmet Bill Proposed in California as a Way to Prevent a Fatal Head Injury

  Claude Wyle | January 18, 2010 7:48 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Last month I wrote about bike helmets for kids and how important they are to bicycle safety. You may recall that studies show 75% of bicycle related deaths are due to head injuries. Because...

• Brain Injury News: New SPECT Brain Scans Can Assist in Diagnosing How Explosions Affect the Brain

  Claude Wyle | September 01, 2011 1:26 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  The U.S. Army has been using a new brain imaging procedure in order to evaluate patients with traumatic brain injuries (a.k.a. TBI). It is a brain scan commonly used to study dementia to find...

• San Jose Teen Unconscious After Car Accident, Expected To Survive

  Chrissie Cole | August 09, 2009 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsSan Jose, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Jessica Huse, 18, of San Jose, suffered serious injuries in a car accident Sunday morning on her way to church. According to her family, she is expected to survive, but she is still...

• San Francisco General Hospital Gains Certification for Traumatic Brain Injury

  Claude Wyle | October 07, 2011 7:08 PM | 1 CommentSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  San Francisco General Hospital is proud to become the first brain trauma treatment center in the U.S.A. to receive a certification for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a recognition...

• Bike helmets save lives: Buy one and wear it properly

  Jessica Grigsby | December 27, 2010 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  There are some staggering statistics related to bicycle deaths and injuries. In a single year, nearly 800 bicyclists are killed and up to 500,000 receive treatment in hospital emergency rooms....

• Can Progesterone Help Traumatic Brain Injury?

  Chrissie Cole | February 21, 2010 12:08 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Research has suggested that progesterone, a hormone normally found in our bodies, could also be used to protect damaged brain tissue. In March, scientists will begin a phase III clinical...

• Fatal Head Injury--$12 Million Verdict for Hospital Negligence

  Claude Wyle | February 21, 2010 6:02 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  As a San Francisco brain injury lawyer, I was extremely satisfied by a jury’s award of $12 million for hospital malpractice on Thursday to a Southern California woman who was left in a...

• Another headache for veterans: the late effects of head injuries

  Ray Mattison | April 24, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Head injured Iraq veterans may suffer cognitive and intellectual problems in later life.