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Implantable Hydrogel Helps Neurons Recover After Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often lead to cognitive disabilities and permanent neural tissue damage, for which effective therapies do not exist. The serious cognitive impairments that patients experience and the burden on caretakers can be enormous, necessitating a constant search for treatments that may help. Researchers at University of Georgia have now reported in journal… Read More »

Can bad diet lead to injury

Other beneficial supplements Turner likes: fish oil, curcumin, and tart cherry juice to reduce inflammation; glutamine along with HMB to maintain muscle diet and hydrolyzed collagen to help diet ligaments and tendons. Work with a Reliable Orthopedic Specialist Besides being painful, injury bad injury can keep you out of action for a long period of… Read More »

Boy narrowly escapes death after metal rod pierces through jaw in horror injury

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW A 9-year-old boy has made a complete recovery from a horrific injury after he fell off a stool and onto a metal rod, which pierced through his lower jaw and narrowly missed major blood vessels. The boy, identified as Ayush by South West News Service, or SWNS, had been balancing on a… Read More »

Facing ‘Certain Death,’ Teenager With Vaping Injury Gets Double Lung Transplant

A 17-year-old boy whose lungs were irreversibly damaged by vaping received a double-lung transplant at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, a lifesaving measure taken when a patient’s own lungs are diseased or damaged beyond repair and there is no other hope of survival, doctors said on Tuesday. Without the transplant, performed last month, the… Read More »

Erectile dysfunction cream for dry eye? Woman suffers chemical injury following prescription mix-up

The woman reportedly suffered a mild, ocular chemical injury as a result of the mix-up. (iStock) A woman from Glasgow, Scotland, hoping to treat her dry eye was mistakenly given a prescription for an erectile dysfunction cream instead, according to a recent case report in the medical journal The BMJ. The woman, who has not been… Read More »