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  • The Power of Physical Therapy: One Student's Story of Brain Injury and Recovery
  • 6/02/2011
  • (mlive.com) - DJ Little dreams of being a paleontologist or an archaeologist someday. But first, he has set his sights on a goal close at hand: walking across the stage at his eighth-grade graduation ceremony. When he does, each step will be a triumph, brought about by the love and dedication of his parents, therapists, teachers and, most of all, DJ's strong will.
  • MEG Brain Scan Tracks Scars of Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 6/01/2011
  • (KPBS) - Veterans suffering the invisible wounds of war cannot show proof of their injuries like someone with broken bones or missing limbs. New research in San Diego is finding ways to measure the physical evidence of a signature injury of the current wars: traumatic brain injury.
  • Doctors Forced to Prescribe Drinking Water to Keep the Old Alive
  • 5/30/2011
  • (MailOnline) - Doctors are prescribing drinking water for neglected elderly patients to stop them dying of thirst in hospital. The measure - to remind nurses of the most basic necessity - is revealed in a damning report on pensioner care in NHS wards.
  • A Visit From the Top
  • 5/28/2011
  • (Salina Journal) - Richard Eubank recalls visiting a young soldier in the traumatic brain injury unit of a veterans hospital. The man was curled in a fetal position and staring into space with uncomprehending eyes. Beside the soldier was a framed photograph of himself in uniform. A 3-year-old girl was clutching his leg, and he was holding his infant son in his arms. "Now he lays in bed and doesn't know anyone in the picture -- including himself," Eubank said.
  • Purple Heart Vet in Bike Crash 'Coming Out of Coma'
  • 5/26/2011
  • (Beacon Journal) - An Iraq War veteran from Hudson who was seriously injured in a bicycle accident this month is beginning to respond to commands from doctors. Christopher Ritchey, 28, a 2001 Hudson High School graduate, is being taken out of a drug-induced coma at Ohio State University Medical Center, his parents said Wednesday.
  • Actor John Stamos to Join Beach Boys!
  • 5/26/2011
  • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 26, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network is delighted to announce that John Stamos will be joining The Beach Boys for the second annual Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Concert in Kettering, Ohio (near Dayton), June 12th.
  • Modern Suicide Obsession A Troubling Sign of Nihilistic Times
  • 5/25/2011
  • (First Things) - Suicide has become an obsession in certain quarters, and for a few suicide pushers, the basis for a personal cult. Australia's Phillip Nitschke (pictured) is one such cult leader. Nitschke is a blatant death-on-demander, who has for years pushed suicide machines, the "peaceful pill" suicide concoction that he once opined, in a NRO interview, should be available on supermarket shelves-even to troubled teenagers.
  • In Two Years, Trauma Center Has Helped More Than 2,000 Patients
  • 5/24/2011
  • (TCPalm) - Often the difference between life and death is decided within an hour. Doctors call it the golden hour, a critical window of time in which to treat a trauma patient.
  • More Than Raw Information Checklists Needed for Good Palliative Care
  • 5/23/2011
  • (First Things) - As I watch Compassion and Choices (once the Hemlock Society), it appears to have a couple of long term goals. First and foremost, of course, is the complete legalization of assisted suicide throughout the country, supposedly restricted to the terminally ill under guidelines.
  • TBI Under Microscope at Hopkins Conference
  • 5/22/2011
  • (Baltimore Sun) - The daylong conference Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital was held to showcase advances on research into traumatic brain injury.