June 26, 2009

Brain Injury may have led to Death Years Later

An attack, causing a brain injury, may have killed a person 8 years later. Two 18 year olds got into a fight and one of the individuals hit the other with a baseball bat causing a serious brain injury; 8 years later he died and the doctors are trying to determine whether the brain injury was the cause of death. Experts say that brain injuries can result in death years later; in fact people with brain injuries are more likely to die early. To read the entire article click here “brain injury

January 21, 2009

Brain Injuries Found Common in Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

In a study of 326 women, researchers analyzed assault injuries including jaw fractures, zygomatic complex fractures, orbital blow-out fractures, and brain injuries to determine what injuries are common with intimate partner violence. A significant amount of women who reportedly were victims of domestic violence displayed injuries of jaw fractures, zygomatic complex fractures, orbital blow-out fractures, and brain injuries more so than assaulted women who did not know their attacker. The study was to help doctors screen out the women who displayed signs of domestic abuse in order to refer them to agencies that could help with their intimate partner problems.

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November 25, 2008

Man denies hitting brain-injured daughter

A man accused of beating his stepdaughter so severely that she suffered a permanent brain injury testified recently that he never hit the daughter. He claims that the daughter injured herself. The prosecution claims that he and his late wife beat the 11-year old daughter into a brain injury coma in September 2005.

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September 16, 2008

Assault can be linked to brain injury increase

A new report found that assaults could lead to a rise in the number of traumatic brain injuries. A recent report found that young people, infants, and women are the most likely to be brain injury victims. Brain injury is ten times more common than spinal injury and on average three times as disabling. The brain injury is different from any other injury because a brain is the seat of a person’s thinking and personality. An injury to the brain can affect everything from short term memory to a person’s behavior.

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September 15, 2008

Man criminally charged after baby suffers brain injury

A baby was admitted to a hospital with brain injury and a skull fracture in addition to multiple broken bones. Last Thursday, the man whom police said caused those injuries was charged in court. He was charged with felonious assault and felony endangering children.

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