Hockey equipment company Bauer had made claims concerning a newly introduced helmet (the RE-AKT) that has revolutionized protection against head and brain injury.
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The U.S. National Cancer Institute is sponsoring trials that include cancers of the head and neck, kidney, bladder, brain and colon.
He was shot in the head, suffered brain and spinal cord injuries and was confined to a wheelchair.
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He would, however, like to donate his brain to Boston University and its School of Medicine and Sports Legacy Institute, which studies brain disease and head trauma.
Ms. DINAH WASHINGTON: (Singing) You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain and I find you spinning round in my brain like the bubbles in a glass of champagne.
The National Cancer Institute is sponsoring trials that include head-and-neck, kidney, bladder, brain and colon cancers.
In 2008, Robert Hughes, from Croydon, was stabbed with a broken bottle and had his head stamped on, leaving him brain-damaged.
But the difference is that the first player saw that he was about to be hit and tensed his neck, which limited the sharp back-and-forth jolt of the head that sends the brain crashing against the sides of the skull.
On March 5th the House oversight committee heard testimony from John Shannon, an infantry sergeant who was shot in the head near the Saddam Mosque in Ramadi, causing brain trauma and the loss of an eye.
When war was declared, she shot herself in the head, but survived, and lived for several years with a degree of brain damage.
Thus, the adoption of gloves to make bare-knuckled boxing safer made it possible for fighters to throw head punches without breaking their hands--resulting in more brain injuries and death.
But plaintiffs, led by lawyer David Frederick, said federal court is the appropriate venue for a case accusing the NFL of negligence and fraud, including assembling a "sham committee" in the 1990s to address the head-injury problem and knowingly hiding information from its players on the risks of brain damage from playing football allegations that the NFL flatly denies.
Forensic pathologist Nicholas Hunt told the inquest in Crook, County Durham, the gunshot passed from above the right temple, back through the brain and out of the left side towards the back of the head.
Brain, who played 285 games for Gloucester and went on to become head coach at Worcester, knows all about pressure at rugby's highest level.
He left a note to send his brain for use in the ongoing study of the effect of concussions and head trauma on depression and suicide.
The chatty regulars showed me how to extend my sauna stay by wrapping my head in a towel ("Otherwise your brain will fry, " one explained) and dousing myself with buckets of icy water.
They differ from so-called 'locked-in' patients whose brain function is intact but are paralysed and communicate usually through eye or small head movements.
Oakland right-hander Brandon McCarthy was hit in the head by a line drive last September, causing a skull fracture, an epidural hemorrhage and a brain contusion that required surgery.
Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.
But MRI has allowed us to visualize the brain's structures so we have a map in our head of where to go and where to avoid.
It had been thought that new brain cells grew only in young children, and that thereafter every bump on the head or glass of wine led to a loss of intelligence.
She had a head start with her research on the brain, an interest that began when she was a child and began suffering migraines and their occasional offspring -- aura hallucinations, brief fantasies that can be flashes of light, zigzagging patterns, blind spots.
In other high-contact sports, several former boxers and football players have developed traumatic brain injuries believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
He was 62, and an autopsy found that he had the degenerative brain disease CTE, thought to be caused by head trauma.
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