Health care: Cigna insurance denies claims without even looking at the patient’s medical record
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1639586525825441792
Health care: “Most headache-related brain scans aren’t needed”
Brain MRI’s are said to have little value in treating patients with headaches – but we do ever more of them: In their JAMA Internal Medicine paper, the researchers reported…
Brain injuries: “A third of all brain injuries go unreported – NZ Herald”
The likelihood of having a second concussion is high and damage can be cumulative. So even if the number one injury recovers just fine, number two might cause more issues.…
Brain injuries: Long-Term Cognitive Deficits Seen With Traumatic Brain Injury
I should not even be functional: The researchers found that people who reported three or more concussions had significantly worse cognitive function; those who had four or more mild concussion…
Brain injuries: Brain injuries frequently neglected in treatment
“That being said, there are some wonderful medical providers, therapy providers who thoroughly understand brain injury. I work with colleagues up at Oregon Health Sciences University, my colleagues down at…
Automation: Robotic nursing assistant
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Brain injuries: What is a brain injury?
To learn more about brain injuries and the effects they may have on patients and their families, please see this free online e-book written by a neuropsychologist: Traumatic Brain Injury…
Brain injuries: March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month provides an opportunity to educate everyone from children and teens to adults and seniors about ways to protect ourselves. …. People who have suffered a brain…
Brain injuries: Seven years of treatment later…
She kept her brain injury a secret… until she couldn’t. Source: This Professional Speaker & Auctioneer Couldn’t Talk Her Way Out of Brain Injury Symptoms – The Good Men Project…
Brain injuries: Brain injuries and long-term risks
There are about 100 things wrong with this news report including this misleading summary but at least it gives more attention to head injuries: Women may be more susceptible to…