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Recalls This Week: Children's Beds, Shades
collapsed on her 6-year-old sister in the bed below. The 6 year old was treated at a hospital emergency department for a head injury involving a cut to her face. HOW MANY: About 59,200 in the U.S. and 4,200 in Canada. FOR MORE: Call Lea Industries
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Recalls This Week: Children's Beds, Shades
collapsed on her 6-year-old sister in the bed below. The 6 year old was treated at a hospital emergency department for a head injury involving a cut to her face. HOW MANY: About 59,200 in the U.S. and 4,200 in Canada. FOR MORE: Call Lea Industries
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600 Police Photos of Tucson Rampage Scene Released
rampage. Thirteen people were injured, including Giffords, who was left partially blind with a paralyzed right arm and brain injury . She resigned from Congress last year. Other photos released Tuesday show images of a credit card record for earplugs that
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Amalric Plays a Frenchman in America in 'Jimmy P'
different cultural contexts. Del Toro is his patient Jimmy Picard, who returned from World War II service in France with a head injury and debilitating psychological symptoms his doctors were unable to diagnose. One of 20 films competing for the Palme d'Or
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A Native American Tale With International Pedigree
principally a tete-a-tete between two men: the Blackfoot Indian Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), who's suffering from head trauma after serving in World War II; and an eager anthropologist and psychologist from France, George Devereux (Mathieu Amalric
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George Michael Treated for 'Minor' Injuries
numerous car-related incidents in recent years. Sky News reported that the crash happened on the crowded M1 motorway and that a different man involved in the crash had to be taken by air ambulance to a hospital for treatment of a head injury .
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Afghans Tell of US Soldier's Killing Rampage
defense; he was on his fourth combat deployment and had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as well as a concussive head injury while serving in Iraq. The Army is seeking the death penalty. The killings took place in Kandahar's Panjwai district
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'Glee's' Lynch and Dog Go to Bat for Shelter Mutts
organization that rescues shelter dogs and trains them to help wounded veterans. "I met this guy David, who had a severe brain injury and emotional trauma. He's functioning well, but he was paranoid and couldn't walk down the street without pulling his
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'Glee's' Lynch and Dog Go to Bat for Shelter Mutts
organization that rescues shelter dogs and trains them to help wounded veterans. "I met this guy David, who had a severe brain injury and emotional trauma. He's functioning well, but he was paranoid and couldn't walk down the street without pulling his
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Jurors Deliberate at Ohio Trial Hinging on Blinks
shot him, Chess said. She also stressed that a doctor who treated Chandler testified that he didn't have a traumatic brain injury and that "his cognitive ability was intact." But Woods' attorney, Kory Jackson, told jurors that the blinks were inconsistent
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Derek Boogaard's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against NHLDecember that of the 85 brains donated by the families of deceased veterans and athletes with histories of repeated head trauma , its researchers found CTE in 68 of them. Four of them played for the NHL and one was an amateur hockey player
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Second Arizona Patient Confuses Brain Leak With Allergiesis seen in overweight patients who have high cranial pressure, and the sinus "pops open." Sometimes a car accident or head trauma can cause a tear. In Aragon's case, doctors didn't know why it happened. Chiu and his colleague, neurosurgeon Dr
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Doctors Use Surgery to Relieve Lingering Concussion PainRecovering from the brain injury took more than a year to appreciate that a head injury does not live in isolation usually blamed on the brain injury itself. Crutchfield neurosurgeon who works in the brain injury program at Boston Children's
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Prince Harry Gives Diaper-Changing a Try
charity that provides support to brain injury survivors. The charity, for which tried on goggles that simulate a brain injury 's effects and met with a former Royal Marine who suffered a brain injury while serving in Afghanistan while
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After the Boston Bombing and Texas Explosion, Don't Ignore Minor Injuriesthey fell to the ground could have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury similar to a football player who is knocked out from a tackle syndrome," said Scalea. "That can happen after a single mild brain injury ." Post-concussive syndrome can manifest itself in forgetfulness
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Daughter's Boston Marathon Death 'Like a Dagger in Our Hearts'at the Neighborhood House Charter School, where he was a third-grader. Denise Richard is still in the hospital with a head injury . Martin's younger sister, Jane, also remains in the hospital after she lost her leg. Jane, a dancer, was a first-grader
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Kids Hit Hard by Boston Marathon ExplosionsWitnesses: 'Like a War Zone' PHOTOS: Boston Marathon Explosions Among those being treated was a 2-year-old boy with a head injury who was admitted to the hospital's Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit, officials said, while a 9-year-old girl
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Snowboarder Chelone 'Chilly' Miller, Brother of Olympian Bode Miller, Dead at 29investigated pending autopsy reports, foul play is not suspected. Miller had a history of seizures after suffering a major head injury in a 2005 motorcycle accident that placed him in coma for 11 days. U.S. Snowboarding said Miller's fatal seizure Sunday
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Judge to Decide Fate of NFL Concussion Lawsuitsgun on himself . An autopsy revealed Seau had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease tied to repetitive head trauma bearing similarities to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease as well as depression. Whether Belcher had
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Disabled War Vet Fights New Battle: His Wife's Deportationin the early 2000s, then denied a green card based on a false claim of citizenship. But James, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during his second deployment to Iraq that resulted in short-term memory loss and other difficulties, disputes that claim
