News tagged with 'Head Injury'

Bombastic pitchman, Billy Mays, suffered a blow to the head on a flight shortly before complaining he didn't feel well. He was found dead in his bed Sunday morning.  USAirways says no passengers complained of injuries when the plane blew two tires upon landing.

Traumatic brain injury is more common that previously thought, as the death of Natasha Richardson points out.  Young males 15 to 24 and  people over the age of 75 are mostly impacted, though many injuries are not readily apparent and may go undiagnosed and untreated.

A mental health parity bill passes Congress with strong bi-partisan suppport.  It puts mental health services on a par with other health care services, eliminating a higher deductible or cost. Now can Congress work out a final form the president will sign? 

Even though Vioxx and Bextra have been taken off the market because of a link to stroke and heart attack, a post-withdrawl study confirms the Cox-2 inhibitors increased the risk for stroke among Vioxx users by 28 percent and among Bextra users 41 percent when compared to the control group.

Electromagnetic radiation may be able to penetrate a child and teens' brain more easily than an adults, so today a major cancer researcher issued a warning memo to 3,000 employees to limit their cell phone use, and to have children use them for emergencies only.

Across the country at least 400 people are killed every year bystanders of police pursuits. Now in two seperate cases, officers are being charged in connection with the deaths of innocents while public advocacy groups are asking for a more rational approach to apprehending the bad guy. 

In the event of a terrorist attack, U.S. hospitals in seven cities are already unprepared and cannot take further cuts to Medicaid, public health hospital emergency rooms and physician training, lawmakers discussed.

YouTube is the free video service where anyone with a handicam can shoot a video and post it for the entertainment of the online community. But some teens in Lakeland, Florida, north of Tampa, took this to the next level. Police released video this week showing the brutal beating of a 16-year- old girl so they could allegedly post the video on YouTube and MySpace. This was no joke.

New gene-scanning technology is allowing researchers to uncover the underlying biology of mental disorders by pinpointing glitches in individual genes that may lead to schizophrenia.  We all may have gene glitches but how they work together is the key.

Music seems to lift the mood and improve the neurons in the brain in patients recovering from a stroke. In this single blind, randomized and controlled trial in Finland, patients selected the music of their choice and listened for a few hours a day.

No one knows exactly how many young people have died from playing the deadly “choking game,”  but the CDC counts at least 82 mostly young teen boys from 1985 to 2007.  Luke Austin is not counted among them even though his mother knows the deadly game took her 13-year-old's life.

With a billion users worldwide, the answer is vitally important to know yesterday. Heavy cell phone use may be affecting the quality and quantity of a man’s sperm. Preliminary research from the

A pilot study is now underway on deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a sort of pacemaker for the brain to jolt memories long lost. Early predictions are that this could signal a major breakthrough in addressing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

In the race to find a cure for or even the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, British researchers say a helmet may begin to reverse the symptoms in weeks if it is worn just ten minutes a day.

50,000 returning U.S. veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting at least 9 percent have post-traumatic stress disorder. Other reports say the numbers are higher.