Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »

An Aurora family has been awarded a $6.5 million settlement in connection with a brain injury to their son caused by alleged negligence.
The settlement was reached on behalf of a now-7-year-old child who allegedly suffered a brain injury at birth at Provena Mercy Medical Center, the Beacon News reports.
Attorneys for the boy, Roberto Morales, Jr., say the attending obstetrician, as well as the labor and delivery nurse, failed to respond to the Read the rest of this entry »

Palm Beach drug injury lawyer, Susan Ramsey, says Medicaid has unsafe drugs
West Palm Beach drug injury lawyer, Susan Ramsey, injury attorney says Medicaid allows unsafe drugs. FDA unapproved drugs allows injuries and deaths.
Medicaid, a division of the U.S. Government Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/, is a state administered program funded by the federal government. Medicaid provides medical coverage to Read the rest of this entry »

On Sunday morning, Brandon’s father, David Zucker, found him unresponsive at their home in Anaheim and called 911, officials said. Brandon was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and later transferred to Children’s Hospital in Orange, where he died at 1:13 a.m. Monday, said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
“He battled with this for eight years, in and out of the hospital, and he fought for a very long time,” Victoria Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Can a change of character be due to a brain injury?
More than 10,000 people suffer an acquired brain injury in the State each year, with the frontal lobes being the most common area affected, writes
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Q My 21-year-old son was involved in an accident almost a year ago when he was knocked from his bicycle. He wasn’t wearing a helmet and suffered a fractured skull and the doctors told us that he had an injury to Read the rest of this entry »

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24 Hour Fitness and KaBOOM! Team up to Build Playgrounds for Houston
Children
SAN RAMON, Calif., & WASHINGTON–(
, the largest privately-owned
U.S. fitness chain and a health club industry pioneer, and KaBOOM!, a
national non-profit dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of
children, are teaming up to build new playgrounds in Houston communities
impacted by Hurricane Ike. The partnership will help children Read the rest of this entry »

His foot buckled, and X-rays revealed a stress fracture. He wore a soft cast for a week, then a boot for two months. The injury healed, but the bigger issue was how it cleared his mind.
“I kind of had a revelation,” he said. “After being injured, I realized I didn’t have as much time as I thought I had (in college soccer). I got everything organized in my head and figured out what was important. At the end of spring, I had renewed energy and all Read the rest of this entry »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Drugs to clear the bowels before a
colonoscopy may harm the kidneys, according to U.S. regulators,
who ordered new warnings on prescription versions of the products
made by
Oral sodium phosphate drugs, sold with and without a
prescription, have been associated with acute phosphate
nephropathy, the kidney injury, the Food and Drug Administration
said today on its
site. Non-prescription treatments, such as
Fleet Phospho-soda, Read the rest of this entry »

Treatment Options For Traumatic Injury To The Aorta, Including Minimally-Invasive Technique Evaluated
A blunt traumatic injury to the aorta, the body’s main artery, is one of the leading causes of death following a vehicle crash. If it is not treated rapidly, the patient is at serious risk for artery rupture, which is nearly always fatal. Surgeons from the University of Maryland Medical Center have evaluated various treatments for this type of traumatic Read the rest of this entry »