Recent Posts in Brain Injuries Category
Posted on May 6, 2011 By Whitley Law Firm
The state of West Virginia is seeking a waiver that would allow it to help people with serious brain injuries . If the state is successful, it could offer a new program that would allow people with ...
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Posted on Mar 12, 2011 By Whitley Law Firm
A young boy now suffers from serious brain injury after he was involved in a multi-car pileup in Moss Point. The accident, which happened right before 2 p.m., effectively shut down I-10 east of the ...
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Posted on Jan 8, 2011 By Whitley Law Firm
In New York, it has been reported that researchers from the United States have developed an extensive questionnaire that will help soldiers who are serving in war learn if they need to be treated for ...
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Posted on Dec 31, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
When people suffer brain injuries the symptoms that they incur will depend upon the severity of their injuries as well as the part of the brain that has been affected. For example, people who suffer ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its adopted standards for the surveillance of central nervous system injury. The following are the findings. In the United States, approximately ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
On Wednesday evening in Indiana, an extra suffered a brain injury while sitting on of the set of Transformers 3 . Gabriela Cedillo was sitting in her car when debris from a nearby stunt crashed ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
A new study is reporting that soldiers who have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI) have a higher risk of epilepsy decades after they sustained their injuries. On July 20, 2010, the print issue of ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
Did you know that your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that is ingested by your body? The oxygen supplied to the brain is used to send signals to other parts of your body, controlling essential functions ...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
There are two types of brain injuries that people may suffer: traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and non-traumatic brain injuries. While both types can be devastating for individual sufferers and their ...
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Posted on May 26, 2010 By Whitley Law Firm
A recent study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month looked at 559 people with traumatic brain injuries and found that their incidence of major depression was nearly ...
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