One person was killed and four were injured in a crash involving a Monterey-Salinas Transit bus and pickup truck in Salinas last Friday, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. The accident was reported at about 5:15 a.m. at the intersection of Blanco and Davis roads in Salinas. The driver of the pickup truck, the lone […]
Sports Brain Trauma May Cause Disease Mimicking ALS
New research by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides the first pathological evidence that repetitive head trauma experienced in collision sports is associated with motor neuron disease, a neurological condition that affects voluntary muscle movements. The most […]
11 deaths not due to defective drywall says CPSC
A review provided to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health found no evidence linking exposure to problem drywall and 11 reported deaths. The CDC review confirms the results of previous reviews conducted by CPSC into these deaths, which also found […]
Brain changes found in football players thought to be concussion-free
A study by researchers at Purdue University suggests that some high school football players suffer undiagnosed changes in brain function and continue playing even though they are impaired. “Our key finding is a previously undiscovered category of cognitive impairment,” said Thomas Talavage, an expert in functional neuroimaging who is an associate professor of biomedical engineering and […]
Study explores cord blood stem cells for pediatric TBI
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has begun enrollment for the first Phase I safety study approved by the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of a child’s own umbilical cord blood stem cells for traumatic brain injury in children. The study is being performed in conjunction with Children’s […]
