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Bauer Agrees to Stop Claiming Its Helmet Protects Players From Concussions
Nov 17, 2014Bauer Hockey Corp. has agreed to stop claiming its Bauer RE-AKT hockey helmet protects players from concussions after Canada's Competition Bureau challenged the claim. Under the terms of a consent agreement reached with the Bureau, Bauer ...
Tags: Bauer Hockey, hockey helmet
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2015 SFIA Litigation & Risk Management Summit Is Being Held
Nov 10, 2014Historically held in April, the 2015 SFIA Litigation & Risk Management Summit is moving to Feb. 2-3, 2015 at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Hotel, prior to the start of the DRI Product Liability Conference. The event, hosted by the Sports & ...
Tags: DRI Product, Sporting Goods
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U. S. Department of Defense Has Awarded a $20 Million Contract to Abbott Laboratories
Aug 20, 2014The U. S. Department of Defense has awarded a $20 million contract to Abbott Laboratories to improve traumatic brain injury testing for military personnel, according to a Pentagon report. The report details that the $19.5 million ...
Tags: Abbott Labs, Brain, Health
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X2 Biosystems Will Supply Its Integrated Concussion Evaluation Software System
Aug 15, 2014X2 Biosystems will supply its Integrated Concussion Evaluation (ICE) software system for use by select teams in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) during the 2014-2017 soccer seasons. Major League Soccer and the National Football League ...
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There Is a Growing Need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy
Feb 14, 2014There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to the huge influx of soldiers returning from war zones with brain injuries, athletes with sports-related head injuries, and the growing population with age-related ...
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Microstructural Changes in The Brains of College-Level Could Be Due to Trauma
Feb 14, 2014Using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), researchers have identified microstructural changes in the brains of male and female college-level ice hockey players that could be due to concussive or subconcussive trauma. Until now, SWI has ...
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About 20 Children Are Injured by Firearms Seriously Enough to Require Hospitalization
Feb 10, 2014NEW HAVEN,Conn.,Jan.27(UPI)--Each day,about 20 U.S.children are injured by firearms seriously enough to require hospitalization,and more than 6 percent die,researchers say. Dr.John Leventhal and his team at the Yale School of Medicine in ...
Tags: brain injuries, Gunshot Wounds
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Children Understand Numbers Differently Than Adults
Jan 23, 2014Children understand numbers differently than adults. For kids, one and two seem much further apart then 101 and 102, because two is twice as big as one, and 102 is just a little bigger than 101. It's only after years of schooling that we're ...
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Certain Regions in Adult Brains Still Have a "Childlike" Ability to Create New Connections
Jan 13, 2014Certain regions in adult brains still have a "childlike" ability to create new connections that can help people learn new skills and form new memories as they age, according to a new study. Researchers compared gene activity levels in ...
Tags: gene activity levels, brain regions, new connections between brain cells
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Concussions Can't Be Prevented, Treated or Cured with Dietary Supplements
Jan 13, 2014Concussions can't be prevented, treated or cured with dietary supplements, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency issued a warning against these products in response to a number of false claims, including promises ...
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The Begining of The U.S. Brain
Jan 3, 2014Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
Tags: human brain, Brain Research
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Even Mild Blows to The Head Might Affect Memory and Thinking.
Dec 27, 2013As more research focuses on the damage concussions can cause, scientists now report that even mild blows to the head might affect memory and thinking. In this latest study, special helmets were used on football and ice hockey players ...
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Marines Who Suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury Face Higher Risk of PTSD
Dec 27, 2013Active-duty Marines who suffer a traumatic brain injury face significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study. Other factors that raise the risk include severe pre-deployment symptoms of ...
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Soldiers Who Suffer Mild Brain Injuries From Blasts Have Long-Term Changes in Their Brains
Dec 27, 2013Soldiers who suffer mild brain injuries from blasts have long-term changes in their brains, a small new study suggests. Diagnosing mild brain injuries caused by explosions can be challenging using standard CT or MRI scans, the researchers ...
Tags: mild brain injuries, explosions, standard CT, MRI scans
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Private Contractors Have High Rates of Depression and PTSD
Dec 26, 2013Private contractors who worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones over the past two years have high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds. Researchers conducted an anonymous online ...
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