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…
Good news: Heart disease and cancer deaths have declined over time
Source: Heart Disease and Cancer Deaths — Trends and Projections in the United States, 1969–2020
Brain injuries: “Three or more concussions add up to long-term cognitive problems”
Multiple concussions in a lifetime were shown to affect the ability to plan and pay attention, though research also underlined health benefits of playing sport Source: Three or more concussions…
Caffeine Culture: Why many studies on coffee health effects are worthless – and misleading
I am not exaggerating when I say that coffee nearly killed me. This is the first post on the topic of coffee and caffeine.
How health insurance may have made health care more expensive
Our overpriced ACA policy for 2023 has a deductible of $17,600. I kid you not. The average deductible for an individual in 2022 is around $1,760, which is double what…
Public health: CDC says unintended consequence of lockdowns led to increase in Strep A, flu and RSV
CDC now thinks lockdowns and ineffective NPIs are the cause of today’s rise in Step A, flu and RSV cases (which started early this season but appear to have peaked…
Business: “thaw and eat” foods
Does anyone still cook real food, from raw ingredients?