- Bret Hanna | April 15, 2012 8:38 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
People suffer approximately 5 million brain injuries, also known as traumatic brain injuries or tbis, in the U.S. every year and about 2 million of those result in permanent damage to the victim....
- Bret Hanna | October 06, 2009 7:34 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
The Brain Injury Association of Utah (BIAU) is holding its Families & Professionals Conference 2009 tomorrow at the Miller Campus of Salt Lake Community College. If interested, you can still...
- Bret Hanna | August 03, 2009 10:04 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
A 14-year-old boy suffered traumatic head injuries yesterday in Lindon, when he ran into a wall while riding his bike with his sister. He was not wearing a helmet. Juan De Dios Rojas was on a family...
- Chrissie Cole | March 22, 2009 10:49 AM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
Natasha Richardson, an accomplished actress died after sustaining a fall at a ski resort.
Reportedly, the actress was talkative and refused medical treatment after the fall. She returned to her...
- Brad Parker | June 14, 2007 8:18 AM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
Every year, Utah citizens suffer the tragedy of alcohol related wrongful deaths caused by drunken drivers. Though it is clearly illegal to drive under the influence of alcohol, and although the dangers of drunk driving are widely known, an alarming number of individuals still drive while intoxicated and each year lives of Utah citizens are unnecessarily cut short because of drunken driving...
- Brad Parker | June 04, 2007 3:41 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
Each year in the United States, over 1.4 million people suffer a brain injury. This averages out to one brain injury every 23 seconds of every day of the year. 235,000 of those 1.4 million individuals are hospitalized for their injuries and 50,000 of those who suffer brain injuries each year die. Those at greatest risk for brain injury are seniors, adolescents and young adults. ...
- James McConkie | June 04, 2007 3:40 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
Jim McConkie spoke to a group of lawyers at the law firm Prince Yeates in Salt Lake CIty, Utah today on cerebral palsy (CP) injuries which are a result of medical negligence at the time of birth. He said that each year 20% of children diagnosed with CP developed it as a result of a brain injury at the time of birth which could have been avoided. In fact 8,000 to 10,000 babies are diagnosed...
- Brad Parker | April 24, 2007 4:39 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Medical Malpractice
Back in 2000, Jim and I obtained Utah's largest medical malpractice verdict in a case relating to birth injuries suffered by an infant delivered at Cottonwood Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 9.7 million dollar verdict was rendered by a Salt Lake City jury after just a few hours of jury deliberation. The Williams claimed in their medical malpractice lawsuit that their OBGYN and IHC...
- Christina Cole | March 08, 2007 11:36 PM | Salt Lake City, UT
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Head & Brain Injuries
A Utah Senator is trying to reauthorize a federal law that supports programs for people with traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, a condition which affects 5.3 million Americans. With 40,000 of these people that reside in Utah."Those suffering from a traumatic brain injury deserve the best care possible," said U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "That's the goal of this bill -- to help patients get...