A 13 year old cyclist was seriously injured yesterday after being hit by a taxi on 108th street near Manhattan Ave on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in NYC. The driver stayed at the scene and wasn’t charged. The teenager was brought to the hospital where he is now…
A pedestrian was knocked unconscious by a hit and run driver on a Queens sidewalk yesterday night. A security camera from a nearby restaurant captured the hit and run. Police say a white sedan drove up onto the sidewalk while going westbound on 30th Avenue in Astoria, then plowed into…
A 5 year old boy broke his arm and suffered facial injuries and a 6 year old boy suffered traumatic brain injury after the inflatable bounce house in which they were playing was swept by the wind. The “flying” bounce house also knocked down a 10 year old girl who…
Camilla’s 62 year old brother died as a result of a serious head injury that he sustained in a fall last night in New York. Mark Shand was in New York to attend the Faberge Big Egg Hunt auction at Sotheby’s, a fundraising event for his charity, the Elephant Family.…
New research from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy that looked at 36 male athletes diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) identified two distinct type of symptoms for the disease. A group of 22 athletes had behavioral and mood disorder developing at a younger age and the other…
In order to prevent Medical Malpractice, observation should be the treatment of choice for all stable brain aneurysms including the smallest ones as all brain aneurysms, even those smaller than the current 7-mm treatment threshold, have 12 times more of a chance to break and lead to a catastrophic brain…
Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury among adolescents may be much higher than previously known according to an innovative study that focuses on 7-12 grades students and include all self-reported TBIs. Previous studies have been mostly based on hospital records leaving many head injuries uncounted because they were not reported to…
Motorcyclists who don’t wear a helmet have a much higher risk to suffer concussion or other serious skull or brain injury in a crash. A crash-test dummy shows that crashing without a helmet exposes the head to accelerations and forces up to 9.5 times stronger than with a helmet according…
A new inexpensive prototype device provides non invasive and instant diagnosis of brain injury to determine if the brain is swelling or if it is bleeding.The device can be combined with a cell phone for remote diagnosis according to a new study from University of California, Berkeley. A research team…
Three recent studies on Traumatic Brain Injury by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai demonstrate that significant opportunity exists to improve intervention and outcomes of TBI. – An Exploration of Clinical Dementia Phenotypes Among Individuals With and Without Traumatic Brain Injury (Dams-O’Connor K, Spielman L, Hammond…