All posts tagged 'Afghanistan brain injury attorney'

Olympic Sports Snowboarding and Skiing Rival Football In Injuries

Posted on February 8th, 2010 · Posted in Brain Injury

A year ago, Natasha Richardson reminded all of us that sport concussions happen in sports other than football and that average people can suffer, not just famous athletes. With the Winter Games approaching it will be world class athletes who may stir up the conversation again, but in a newer..
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NASCAR Vows To Return To Roots As a ‘Contact Sport’

Posted on January 31st, 2010 · Posted in Brain Injury

Some people, including officials for the sport, think that NASCAR needs energizing. That’s why the organization plans to loosen up some of its rules so that the races become more of “a contact sport” (we guess like football) this year, NASCAR chairman Brian France said recently. “We’re going to open..
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Conan O’Brien Concussion – Amnesia without Confusion

Posted on September 30th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

As I have been discussing for much of the last month on this blog, amnesia and confusion are not the same thing. An example more vivid than even a football quarterback was the concussion Conan O’Brien suffered on camera on his show last week. See for one of the multitude..
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Loss of the News – The Fabric of Our Democracy in Peril

Posted on April 30th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

The below story from the Associated Press is nearly as disturbing as the news from Pakistan and the debacle that Baxter’s move to globalization of Heparin manufacture has been. Before I went to law school, I went to Journalism school, journalism school in Chicago, at Northwestern University. I aspired to..
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Multiple problems hurting hospitals’ bottom lines

Posted on December 28th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 12/28/2008 12:02 AM By The Associated Press U.S. hospitals are beset by financial pressures from all sides. Issues cited by hospital executives, industry consultants and other experts include: —More patients aren’t paying their bills or are taking longer to do so. Reasons include increases in people who are unemployed..
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Iraq Long Haul PART V: Joy over survival, tears at extension

Posted on August 8th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 8/7/2008 12:00 AM By SHARON COHEN EDITOR’S NOTE — Can the long separation be extended further? Yes, and for some there’s major fighting ahead. Fifth of a seven-part series on the longest deployment of the Iraq war.By SHARON COHENAP National Writer Christmas Day arrived — and for two 1st..
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The Long Haul I

Posted on August 4th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

For weeks on this blog, I wrote about the Iraq War and brain injury, with my last blog on that topic being http://tbilaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/brain-injury-is-not-new-to-iraq.html My first blog on that topic began in June with http://tbilaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/suicide-and-terror-continues-for-our.html Below is the first in a seven part series from AP, by Sharon Cohen on the..
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