Sometimes, a simple headache is the only symptom of a traumatic brain injury; but traumatic brain injuries can have many degrees of severity and manifest themselves in many ways. Always be on the lookout for symptoms which can include can include pain, nausea, seizures, confusion, memory loss, a change in personality, depression, irritability, and other emotional and behavioral problems. The...
Fellow Injury Board blogger, James Sabatinihas a nice post on Guidant's latest woes regarding their implantable cardiac defibrillators.
BrainInjury Blogs has just posted a very timely reminder about the importance of pool safety. Every summer there are Tampa Bay news reports of drownings and serious brain injuries as a result of swimming pool incidents. Most of the victims are children. The full article is well worth a read.Swimming Pool SafetyWith the approach of the memorial day weekend, it's important to focus on swimming...
In 1965, Ralph Nader published his book, Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile His purpose was to protect the consumer. Today, 41 years later, Ralph writes about AutoZone at CommomDreams.org. His purpose is to protect the coerced employee. And, to underscore the vital role of our civil justice system in America. Ralph continues to be a national treasure.In...
Understaffing at nursing homes appears to be the underlying reason for continued problems and abuses according to a just-released national report examining nursing home abuse and neglect. The study, commisioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform."The Faces of Neglect: Behind the Closed Doors of Nursing Homes," commissioned by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing...
Norfolk Southern Railway Company and other major Railroads are always patting themselves on the back about their safety records. The railroad industry has historically been one of the most dangerous occupations in America. As a result of the dangers, a separate federal law covers railroad workers who get hurt on the job called the Federal Employers' Liability Act (F.E.L.A.). When a railroad...
So...You thought briefly about becoming a lawyer. But, your sanity was restored before you could register for your first law school class. If you still have that hankering for the practice of law take a brief trip through Blawg Review #58. Some pretty good stuff.
Well this surprising news story just came down today. Thieves have stolen sensitive personal identifying information on over twenty-six million five hundred thousand United States military veterans including social security numbers, dates of birth and other personal information. Thieves were able to steal this private data from one Veterans Affairs' employee who apparently took this...
Thanks to my paraglegal, Christy Koch, for finding a list of articles from the International Study of Pain. The list of articles runs a gamet from pain in children, spinal pain, fibromyalgia pain, pain and depression, and on and on. The articles are scientific in nature, written by medical providers, whose object is to study pain.
A study based on FDA records for the last 10 years found that 164,000 external defibrillators (one out of every five) were subject to recall or agency alert. The data included 370 reports of deaths in which the defibrillator malfunctioned. Actually, the number was much higher, 801 adverse-event reports associated with death, but the study only counted the cases in which an emergency worker...