Accident and Trauma News
May 9, 2024
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Apr. 11, 2024 Childhood maltreatment can continue to have an impact long into adulthood because of how it effects an individual's risk of poor physical health and traumatic experiences many years later, a new ...
Mar. 7, 2024 People who have headaches after experiencing concussions may also be more likely to have higher levels of iron in areas of the brain, which is a sign of injury to brain cells, according to a preliminary study released today, March 5, 2024, that will ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Medical researchers have found a peptide which, when administered intravenously, homes in on the new blood vessels that are forming in damaged tissue. The peptide has been used as a delivery vehicle for therapeutics targeted at regenerating tissues. ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Research reveals that adults with PTSD have a 2% smaller cerebellum than people without the disorder. The finding expands understanding of the cerebellum's role in the brain beyond balance and movement to include emotion and cognition and also ...
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Mar. 26, 2024 Researchers have used machine learning to identify subgroups of trauma patients who are more likely to survive their injuries if treated with tranexamic acid. This treatment controls bleeding and ...
Mar. 13, 2024 U.S. veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffered mild traumatic brain injury from exposure to explosive blasts were found to have changes in cerebrospinal fluid proteins that are ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Scooter injuries nearly tripled across the U.S. from 2016 to 2020, with a concurrent increase in severe injuries requiring orthopedic and plastic ...
Jan. 4, 2024 Researchers have found set of neurons that mediate panic-like symptoms in mice, which showcase a novel brain pathway that could be a target for new panic disorder ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Signs of injury to the brain's white matter called white matter hyperintensities, as seen on brain scans, may be tied more strongly to vascular risk factors, brain shrinkage, and other markers of ...
Dec. 13, 2023 In research conducted on mice a team discovered brain mechanisms that go awry as a result of exposure to trauma in infancy and showed that these changes may be reversible if treated early. ...
Dec. 11, 2023 A new study provides us with a better understanding of how the brain responds to injuries. Researchers have discovered that a protein called Snail ...
Nov. 30, 2023 It is well known that people who have lived through traumatic events like sexual assault, domestic abuse, or violent combat can experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A novel pilot study incorporating mindfulness into exposure therapy shows promise for reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress in cardiac arrest ...
Nov. 29, 2023 New research links soccer heading -- where players hit the ball with their head -- to a measurable decline in the microstructure and function of the brain over a two-year ...
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Apr. 11, 2024 Delivering high-quality emergency care for kids may mean fewer CT scans, according to a new study. The research validates intra-abdominal injury (IAI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) prediction ...
Feb. 29, 2024 A technique originally devised to extract DNA from woolly mammoths and other ancient archaeological specimens can be used to potentially identify badly burned human remains, according to ...
Jan. 12, 2024 Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following exposure to multiple traumatic events. This is shown by a meta-study by an international ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Researchers have designed and developed a novel diagnostic device to detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) by shining a safe laser into the ...
Nov. 20, 2023 Out of 1,527 emergency department patients ages 65 and older who suffered a head trauma associated with a ground-level fall, only about 60 percent of them followed up with their primary care ...
Nov. 14, 2023 Monitoring brain injury biomarkers and glucose variation in patients who have suffered an acute cranial injury during the entire first week of hospitalization can provide a more accurate picture of ...
Nov. 13, 2023 A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life: In an animal study, ...
Nov. 7, 2023 Researchers show why only a subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research, centered on the body's stress hormone response, could pave the way ...
Oct. 26, 2023 The risk of serious injury from most exercise is astonishingly small, according to the results of a five-year study. Even forms of sport sometimes considered risky by the public, such as road ...
Oct. 25, 2023 People who have experienced traumatic events in childhood such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction may be more likely to experience headache disorders as adults, according to a meta-analysis. ...
Oct. 5, 2023 One treatment each of two psychedelic drugs lowered depression and anxiety and improved cognitive functioning in a sample of U.S. special operations forces veterans who sought care at a clinic in ...
Oct. 2, 2023 Novel brain biometrics could help inform whether an athlete is ready to return to play following a concussion, according to new ...
Sep. 21, 2023 After a traumatic experience, most people recover without incident, but some people -- between 2% and 10% -- develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that can cause ...
Sep. 20, 2023 Researchers found that college athletes had worse post-injury outcomes related to concussions they experienced outside of sports than those they experienced while playing sports. Additionally, female ...
Sep. 6, 2023 A study of twins shows that having a concussion early in life is tied to having lower scores on tests of thinking and memory skills decades later as well as having more rapid decline in those scores ...
Aug. 31, 2023 New research into injuries sustained by trail users has found mountain biking is not the dangerous, injury-plagued sport reserved for thrill-seekers that it is often perceived to be and that the ...
Aug. 16, 2023 A research team has recently made a significant advancement in spinal cord injury treatment by using genetically modified human neural stem cells (hNSCs). They found that specifically modulating a ...
Aug. 11, 2023 A new digital headset designed to measure alterations in brain function could change decisions about how quickly an athlete is ready to return to play after a concussion. In an evaluation of the ...
July 17, 2023 A new study finds concussions don't reduce the IQ of children. Findings may help to reduce parental fears regarding these common and concerning head injuries. Researchers looked at socioeconomic ...
July 5, 2023 A new study suggests that depression after traumatic brain injury (TBI) could be a clinically distinct disorder rather than traditional major depressive disorder, with implications for patient ...
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- Age of First Exposure to Tackle Football and Years Played Associated With Less White Matter in Brain
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- Good News for Athletes Who Are Slow to Recover from Concussion
- In the Wake of a Wildfire, Embers of Change in Cognition and Brain Function Linger
- Aspirin as Effective as Blood Thinner Injections to Prevent Deadly Complications in Patients Hospitalized With Bone Fractures
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- Can Neuroimaging Reveal the Roots of Psychiatric Disorders? Not Just Yet
- Affordable Device for Fixing Broken Bones Piloted in Gaza, Sri Lanka and Ukraine
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- Mental Health, Substance Use Issues Prevalent Among Nonpsychiatric Emergency Room Patients
- Unsecured Handguns Account for the Majority of Firearm Suicide Deaths in the United States, Study Finds
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- Number of Children Hospitalized for E-Scooter Injuries Surge from 2011-2020
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- Diagnosing Sports-Related Concussions May Be Harder Than Thought
- Recovery from Muscle Loss Injuries Hindered by Immune Cell Conflicts