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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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Important Brain Injury Legislative Alert

Posted on July 25, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of America has issued the following important legislative alert this evening: Tell Your Senators to Vote YES on Advancing America's Priorities Act Call Your Senators TODAY. Click here to take action. Earlier this week, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev...

Brain Mapping

Posted on July 24, 2008
Thanks to the Brain Stimulant blog for information on a new brain mapping project. A team of researchers has modeled in high-resolution the underlying architecture of the human cerebral cortex, showing how different brain regions interact with one another...

North American Brain Injury Associatio n Legal Conference

Posted on July 22, 2008
I am pleased to have been invited to speak again at the 21st annual North American Brain Injury Legal Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 2-4, 2008. The conference is sponsored by the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) and will offer detailed, practical information on every aspect of litigating a traumatic brain injury case...

Unsafe Truck Drivers: A continued roadside hazard

Posted on July 21, 2008
Unsafe truck drivers and the vehicle crashes they cause are a continued source of traumatic brain injuries. A 30-page General Accounting Office study, released by the Associated Press today in advance of a governmental hearing on truckers and unsafe tractor trailer operations scheduled for later this week found that 563,000 commercial drivers were determined by the Veterans Affairs Department, Labor Department or Social Security Administration to also be eligible for full disability benefits over health issues...

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Brain Injury Association, Legislative Alert

Posted on July 20, 2008
The follow is this week's legislative alert distributed by the Brain Injury Assocation of America: Dear Advocates: Numerous developments related to brain injury policy and advocacy efforts occurred this week in the nation?s capital. In a welcome development on Tuesday, Congress successfully overrode the president?s veto of key Medicare legislation (H...

Urge Governor Patterson to sign new law to protect persons with a disability

Posted on July 18, 2008
Legislation is presently pending before New York Governor, Patterson (A.7277 (Destito) S.7337 (Griffo)) which would amend state law to require state agencies to ensure that services for New Yorkers with disabilities are provided in the most integrated community setting, rather than in state or other institutional or segregated settings, by requiring state agencies to prioritize that in their state plans and to file annual reports demonstrating that priority...

Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Elects Shana DeCaro, Treasurer

Posted on July 17, 2008
Congratulations to my partner, SHANA DE CARO for being elected an officer of the American Association of Justice (AAJ) Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. Shana has served as a member of the executive board for the past four years and was unanimously elected an officer at our annual meeting just held as part of the American Association of Justice annual convention held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania...

Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Newsletter

Posted on July 10, 2008
The first edition of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Newsletter has been published. This document is not yet available on line so I have published the entire newsletter for our readers: Congressional Brain Injury Task Force NEWSLETTER 110th Congress July 9, 2008 In an effort to educate and promote the awareness of brain injury, one of the driving missions of the Task Force, we would like to introduce the first edition of the quarterly Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Newsletter...

FDA Seeks New Warning for Epilepsy Drugs

Posted on July 08, 2008
Roughly 2.7 million Americans have epilepsy, according to government estimates and many forms of epilepsy are caused by a traumatic brain injury. The Food and Drug Administration is recommending a "black box" warning about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior with epilepsy drugs, just days ahead of an advisory panel meeting...

Survey of State Medicaid Waiver Programs

Posted on July 07, 2008
Traumatic brain injury waiver programs that will enable those suffering from brain damage to receive services in a home or community based setting vary greatly from state to state. MedThe Center for State Health Policy, the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University has recently published an issue brief, ?A Survey of Medicaid Brain Injury Programs? by Leslie Hendrickson, Visiting Professor at Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, and Randall M...

Baseline Neuropsychological Testing to Detect Brain Damage

Posted on July 06, 2008
The New York Times weighed in today on the need for baseline neuropsychological testing. Recognizing that, "brain injuries can manifest themselves in subtle, ignorable ways, like irritability and dizziness", the Times said, "this type of sophisticated diagnostic tool is essential...

Nutrition Supplementation Important Following Brain Damage To Improve Outcome

Posted on July 05, 2008
Following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), patients should be given nutritional supplementation through a gastric feeding tube as soon as possible. A new study by researchers at New York-Prebyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that this simple intervention can improve chances of survival by as much as four-fold...

Fourth of July

Posted on July 04, 2008
On this 4th of July from the The Continental Congress: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...

Oxygen Therapy Following Hypoxic Brain Injury May Cause Further Damage

Posted on July 03, 2008
The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, known as hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is one of the most common causes of death and long-term neurological damage among infants and children...

Latest Brain Injury Legislative Update

Posted on June 28, 2008
Here is this week's legislative update which has been prepared by the Brain Injury Associaiton of America: Dear Advocates: Legislative activity related to traumatic brain injury policy ensued on numerous fronts this week, as Congress made progress on several bills before leaving town for a week-long July 4 recess beginning on Monday...

Increase assistance for TBI family caregivers

Posted on June 27, 2008
Often times, family members are called upon to provide a variety of care and services after their loved one returns home following a traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, our insurance system and governmental assistance programs do not provide compensation to the service provided by these family members...

Brain Injuries Leading Cause of Accidental Death In The Elderly

Posted on June 25, 2008
A new CDC study has found that brain injuries account for half of all deaths from falls. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first comprehensive national look at the role brain injuries play in fatal elderly falls. It examined 16,000 deaths in 2005 that listed unintentional falls as an underlying cause of death...

?Unidentified TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) : The Importance of Finding Those Who ?Get Lost? and Those ?Not Found?? now available

Posted on June 23, 2008
Th web cast ?Unidentified TBI: The Importance of Finding Those Who ?Get Lost? and Those ?Not Found? is now available on line. The original program was aired on May 22, 2008. Dr. Wayne Gordon from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, was the speaker. The web cast focused on the link between a previous brain injury and problems later in life...

Brain Injury Business Practice Conference Announced

Posted on June 18, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of America has announced plans for its 2008 Brain Injury Business Practice College to be held on November 10-12 at the Westin Casuarina Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The conference is designed for CEO's, owners, managers, admissions professionals as well as sales and marketing staff of a brain injury rehabilitation program or long-term brain injury care center...

Long-term care brain injury rehabilitation facility for vets with brain injuries approved

Posted on June 17, 2008
A five-year pilot project to treat up to 25 wounded warriors and veterans with severe to moderate traumatic brain injury has been approved by the Federal government. The center is to be located in Johnstown, PA in the former Crichton Rehabilitation Center at the Hiram G...

Brain Injury Legislative Update

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of America has requested that I share this week's legislative update with you: Now that Congress has successfully passed this year?s budget, next week will feature key activity on appropriations on numerous fronts. Late this week, Fiscal 2009 302(b) Appropriations Subcommittee Allocations were announced, including an allocation of $153...

Refractory Epilepsy Lecture

Posted on June 14, 2008
The New York University Comprehensive Epilepsy Department has requested that I post this reminder of the final lecture of the FACES (Finding A Cure For Epilepsy) 2008 evening epilepsy lecture series which will take place on Monday, June 16, 2008. Dr. Lara Marcuse will speak on the topic of "Refractory Epilepsy?...

Keeping familes and friends connected following a brain injury

Posted on June 13, 2008
I recently came across an on line web site designed to keep family and friend connected after a serious injury takes place. The free service sponsored by CaringBridge allows individuals to create in a very simple fashion private, personalized web sites which allow for journal entries,, photographs and allow visitors to read updates and leave messages of encouragement...

Cooling the brain following traumatic brain injury not proven helpful

Posted on June 12, 2008
Cooling the brain after a traumatic brain injury may not help improve neurological outcomes and might even increase mortality. That's the conclusion of a randomized trial of 225 children with brain injuries. However,the study researches suspect that by changing the cooling and re-warming protocol, other researchers may have more success with this therapy...

Family Issues following a traumatic brain injury to be reviewed by defense health board

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Traumatic Brain Injury Family Caregivers Panel, a Defense Health Board subcommittee will hold a public meeting in Silver Spring, MD on June 17 and 18, 2008. The Panel will deliberate and vote on matters needed to continue dissemination of the Traumatic Brain Injury Family Caregivers curriculum and to hear from the public regarding this issue...

New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council: Meeting Agenda

Posted on June 10, 2008
The next meeting of the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council, which I am proud to chair has been scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 2008 from 10 AM until 2 :30 PM. The focus of this meeting is Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence with speakers exploring the service needs of individuals who have sustained a TBI as a result of domestic violence...

Medicaid Assistance following a brain injury

Posted on June 10, 2008
One of the most important resources for persons with a brain injury are the health and rehabilitation benefits provided by Medicaid. New York has been the leader in establishing home based care for victims of brain injury through its Medicaid waiver program...

Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania Annual Conference

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania is scheduled to hold their annual conference on June 23 and June 24, 2008 in Harrisburg, PA. The conference is entitled, "Best Practices in Brain Injury: Meeting the Challenges of Role and Life Cycle Changes," in recognition that needs after brain injury may continue throughout an individual's lifespan...

Brain Injury Legislative Update

Posted on June 08, 2008
The following federal policy activity related to traumatic brain injury has been prepared by the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA): BIAA joined coalition efforts focused on several important policy issues impacting the disability community, including efforts to protect Medicaid, strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act, and formally comment on recently proposed rules concerning the Developmental Disabilities Act...

Long Island Brain Injury Event

Posted on June 04, 2008
The Long Island Chapter of the Brain Injury Association of New York State has announced plans to hold their first "Walk n Rollathon to be held on Saturday June 28, 2008 at the Holtsville Ecology Center 250 Buckley Road, Holtsville, NY from 11 am to 2 pm...

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