Brain Injuries

Getting children to school safely is a priority for many parents and some people in the general public. When a child has to cross a road to get to the bus stop, there is a chance that an accident will occur. For one Florida child, walking in a marked crosswalk to her bus stop didn’t stop an accident from happening. The girl was crossing Waterford Chase Parkway in Orange County, Florida, when she was struck

Parents who allow their children to play sports at school expect that the adults over the sport will keep the children as safe as reasonably possible. For the parents of one 16-year-old student in the Hillsborough County School District, warming up before football drills ended in devastation. The teen wasn’t wearing a helmet as he got ready for drills on Oct. 16, 2013. He was playing catch with some teammates to warm up before drills.

It is often said that one small choice can have lifelong consequences. In some cases, the small choice is something as simple as getting into a car that your friend is driving. For one Florida man who played football for the Naval Academy, that was the choice that is still affecting his life. The man was in a vehicle with his friend on Thanksgiving night in 2012 when the car ran into a house on

When a person suffers from a brain injury, the full impact of the injury likely won’t be known for a while. An award from General Electric and the National Football League to Banyan Biomarkers Inc. and the University of Florida might pave the way for improved testing for brain injuries. The $300,000 award will be used to research a way to diagnose brain injuries within 30 minutes by using a blood test. As part of

Getting into an accident is a scary experience for anyone, but when that accident involves a spine injury or a brain injury, the fear level seems to increase. For one teenager, an accident that occurred in Florida has changed her life considerably. Despite being seriously injured in the parasailing accident, the girl says she is staying positive. The teenager was parasailing in Panama City last year when the harrowing accident occurred. The line that was

Ryan Freel, the former Major League Baseball player, had been suffering from a progressive brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last year, said his family on Dec. 15. According to a Florida newspaper, a report detailing Freel’s medical condition was presented to Freel’s parents and representatives from Major League Baseball at winter meetings for the sport being held in Lake Buena Vista.

A decades-old memory led a geneticist to fill a gap in modeling systems for studying traumatic brain injuries that plague many Florida athletes. When he noticed fruit flies’ reaction to being stunned 40 years ago, he didn’t think much of it. However, as a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, he realized that he might use the insects’ DNA to research how susceptibility to brain trauma might be coded in the genes.

According to a news report, a nine-year-old boy had to undergo emergency surgery as a result of an accident aboard a Miami-based cruise ship while it was anchored in Nassau in February. The boy’s parents have a filed a lawsuit against the cruise line in Miami District Court charging it with negligence. According to the report, the boy has been left with severe and permanent brain damage. The boy had been invited by the crew

Florida residents who follow medical news may be interested to hear of a new method for detecting consciousness in patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. According to a news report, a team of scientific researchers in Italy have found a way to measure the human brain’s response to a magnetic pulse. The breakthrough discovery is expected to help determine a person’s level of awareness. Historically, determining consciousness in patients suffering from brain trauma

People in Florida might be interested to hear that children who are admitted to emergency room departments for head trauma are less likely to require CT scans the longer that they are observed. The results of a study that was published online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine showed that with every hour of observation that went by, there was a decrease in the CT rates of children with minor blunt head trauma. This was