Posts tagged head

• Left Turn by PG&E Truck in Mission District Causes Severe Injuries to Bicyclist

  Claude Wyle | May 15, 2012 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Bike to Work Day should have been a great day for all San Francisco Bay Area cyclists, however it was a very bad day for one 27-year-old cyclist who was struck by a PG&E truck as the truck...

• Is Distracted Walking Contributing to More Pedestrian Injuries?

  Claude Wyle | May 14, 2012 8:03 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Every day we learn more about the dangers of distracted driving, which is no joke. People are being killed each and every day because of distracted driving and we need to do something serious to...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• Brain Injuries: Multiple Sclerosis Aggravation by Stress and Trauma

  Claude Wyle | December 23, 2010 12:00 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  There is a well established medical relationship between the aggravation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and stress and head trauma. The medical literature associated with MS which has come out since...

• Children and traumatic brain injury

  John Demas | June 29, 2010 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  When you throw a stone into the center of a small pond, it creates a beautiful ripple that expands from the center and stretches slowly but surely across the pond. If the stone was large enough, the...

• 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...

• 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...