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Shadow’s Gunshot: When Good Dogs Have Bad Days, It’s a Good Thing the Veterinary Criticalist is On Duty by Dr. Patty Khuly Doctor of Veterinary Medicine , some of which involved the media. Here’s more   As we were working on diagnosing the extent of his injuries, a media...
Car Crashes Through the Doors of the ER That Was Transporting a Gunshot Victim by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven The driver was not the gunshot victim, but rather someone driving him to the emergency room... in movies but perhaps not in real life, until today.  BD SCHENECTADY -- A car carrying a gunshot...
Gabrielle Giffords, update on her brain injury by Action for Better Healthcare Patient Expert do survive these types of brain injuries more often than you may think. A report on CNN indicates: About 2/3 of patients with a gunshot wound to the head don’t live long enough to make it to the hospital. Of the third...
The Warrior Ethos and Traumatic Brain Injury by Broken Brilliant Patient Expert from seeking help for their traumatic brain injury. … Mission First; Self Last This is essential... out expertise, especially from an advocacy organization like the Brain Injury Association...
Traumatic Brain Injury, Does Another Part of Your Brain Take Over? by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert ) is significantly diminished. So, if someone suffers a brain injury early in life, there is more potential for recovery..., and throughout development, the brain compensates. However, if someone has a neural injury later in life, the extent...
Brain Injury is Common by Pat S. Patient Expert I have written often here about my own injury due to brain trauma from an automobile accident 34 years ago. Here is an article regarding brain injury in Ireland. The article states that in Ireland...
Post-Traumatic Brain Injury: Amino Acids May Aid in Recovery by Duane Sherry, M.S. Patient Expert : BRAIN INJURY, VEGETATIVE STATE, MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE - Branched-chain Amino Acids, Intravenous... minimally conscious state in patients with traumatic brain injury: a pilot study,” Aquilani [...]...
Learn the Symptoms of Brain Injury by Elizabeth Leis Patient Expert Has persistent clumsiness Complains of excruciating headache Typical symptoms of a non-urgent brain injury... after a mild brain injury, including mental processing speed, attention/concentration, and other executive...
Ten Years After Traumatic Brain Injury by Dr. Romeo V. Doctor of PhilosophyHealth Maven Neuropsychological Society presents the results of a 10-year study examining the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Previous research investigating long-term has yielded mixed results linking severity...
The difference between concussion and mild traumatic brain injury by Broken Brilliant Patient Expert , expecially mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI), it gets a little depressing, thinking about all the people... (especially since Natasha Richardson died from a brain injury while skiing). Prevention is great...

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South Africa Police Slammed for Firing on AIDS Activists
Today, 40 people were injured and ten treated for gunshot wounds after South African police fired on protesters at the Frontier Hospital in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape region, said Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the AIDS activist group that organized the march. Police fired rubber bullets and smoke...crap

My Hepatitic
I am 39 Year old. I have hepatitis C. I got hepatitic when I was 16. I had a gun shot wound andcrap

SPASTICITY
I am 58 years old and in 1999 I received a brain injury due to a shelving unit coming loose from a wall and hitting me which caused my brain injury when I fell. I do not have MS but I do suffer severe spasticity, depression, weakness of my right side and painful muscle spasms. I received a baclofen...crap

Headache, Traumatic Brain Injury and Gender Differences
to be evaluated for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although most recover within a few days after sustaining a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), there are some children who continue to be symptomatic... Brain Injury: A Cohort Study, to determine what the frequency of headache was in children, ages 5 to 17...crap

Depression and pain
I had a traumatic brain injury which left me with major depression and a body that is plagued with spasticity, right sided weakness and PTSD, I simply can't cope at times. I have a loving family but sorry that doesn't help. I try very hard not to show my major depression, they worry so and I want them to see...crap

Traumatic Brain Injury; TBI - Chronic Insomnia
Is it possible to have a traumatic brain injury from getting hit by a train as front seat passenger, and never be able to fall asleep again? My sleep specialist told me that I have chronic insomnia... magazine put the story of my train/car accident and head injury in their magazine a couple years ago...crap

Does smoking pot cause memory loss or isn't that an old myth?!!
I am a brain injury survivor and getting on medical merijuana, the reason...brain injury survivor. I was wondering if its just a myth that it really causes memory loss?!! MommyBag wants to know...crap

DO YOU TAKE WORKERS COMP.AN CAN YOU TREAT SEVERE MIRGAINE HEADACHS
FELL 18ft.TRAMATIC BRAIN INJURY TRIED ALL PREVENATED MED.NOTHING WORKED IT HAS BEEN 6yrs.ago.IT IS TO THE POINT I HAVE TO GET SOME RELIEF JEFF EADScrap

Just diagnosed with hyperthyroid and elevated triglycerides...
I am a survivor of an Acquired Closed Brain Injury, Whiplash injuries, Carotid Artery Disease, Early Onset Dementia, Spondylosis and now recent lab tests have revealed this.   I haven't consulted with anyone about this yet, but will do so soon.    In the meantime, I'd appreciate...crap

Depression and Atripila
I am a brain injury and stroke survivor. I am on the HIV medication Atripila and experiencing depression. Is there a depression medication that can be taken with Atripila that wont have drug interactions? I am also taking Keppra for seizure disorder. Please advice so I can go to my doctors...crap