Bicycle and motorcycle accidents due to poor road conditions are not uncommon. Even experienced riders can lose control when a pothole or unexpected crack throws their machine off course. In a typical accident, that rider would look to hold the responsible party...
Brain Damage
It’s time to stop avoidable brain injuries
National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month in March provides an opportunity to discuss this important and evolving area of medicine. In the past, coaches told athletes to shake off a blow to the head. Football coaches would call it a bellringing, and boxers would...
Hypothermia Reduces Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage
Whole body cooling reduces brain damage from oxygen deprivation during birth and can lessen death and disability rates for these infants. A study of the use of hypothermia therapy (reduced body temperature) for babies with a gestational age of 36 weeks or more and who...