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  • Retired NFL Players and Dementia: Brain Trauma Hits Hard After Football
  • 12/06/2011
  • (Yahoo Sports) - The statistics are scary. One in three retired football players will suffer some cognitive impairment, and many end up suffering a serious degree of dementia, making life after football especially challenging, and some have faced such extreme difficulties they've decided to end their lives.
  • Could Ambien Help 'Awaken' Those with Brain Damage?
  • 12/05/2011
  • (The Blaze) - For most people, the drug Ambien puts them out like a light. For others, specifically those in a vegetative or minimally conscious state, the drug does the exact opposite: it wakes them up - at least to an extent. Over the years, there have been several accounts of Ambien helping patients with severe brain damage make improvements in focus and cognitive abilities.
  • Probiotics Help with Brain Injury Outcome
  • 12/04/2011
  • (UPI) - Probiotics, added to nutrients supplied through a feeding tube to a patient with a traumatic brain injury, may improve outcomes, Chinese researchers suggest. Professor Jing-Ci Zhu - study leader from the Third Military Medical University School of Nursing and colleagues at the North Sichuan Medical College and Hospital in China - said traumatic brain injury is associated with a profound suppression of a patient's ability to fight infection.
  • December 3rd - Terri Schindler Schiavo's Birthday
  • 12/03/2011
  • (Terri's Life & Hope Network) - Today is Terri Schiavo's Birthday - she would have been 48 years of age. It is because of the heinous act of Terri's intentional, court mandated starvation and dehydration that the Terri's Life & Hope Network was established in an effort to protect the precious other cognitively disabled persons and their families battling similar circumstances. Indeed, Terri's Life & Hope Network remains dedicated to standing up for those that are the target of a very aggressive anti-life movement.
  • New Book: Sacrifice for God and Country
  • 12/02/2011
  • (Amazon) - Sacrifice for God and Country, a new book authored by Terri Schiavo's priest, Monsignor Thaddeus Malinowski who visited and prayed with Terri weekly. This is Monsignor Malinowski's autobiography, a Roman Catholic Priest/Chaplain who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, reflecting on his experiences as a priest and soldier.
  • This Week on Pro-Life Perspective: The Life & Hope Network
  • 12/01/2011
  • (NRLC) - All this week, National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias is joined in studio by Suzanne Schindler (pictured), sister of Terri Schindler Schiavo and co-executive director, with her brother, Bobby, of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network. Suzanne is sharing the latest efforts of the Life & Hope Network and the ongoing work to save patients like Terri from death by starvation & dehydration.
  • Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Improves TBI and PTSD in Veterans
  • 11/30/2011
  • (Research News) - Treatment with hyperbaric oxygen benefits veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), say researchers. The findings are available online now in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
  • Brain Injury Survivors Inspired by Congresswoman Giffords
  • 11/29/2011
  • (Press Democrat) - When Gabrielle Giffords went on national television this month in a "20/20" interview, she displayed not only the ravages of being shot in the head last January, but the painstaking process of putting the brain and body back together after a traumatic brain injury.
  • Liberal Barney Frank Even Hates Death Panels

  • 11/29/2011
  • November 28, 2011 (St. Petersburg, FL) - As Obamacare continues to unravel, even corrupt politicians are throwing their weight behind repealing extremely harmful parts of the law. The latest is Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), the retiring congressman who may be best known for his role behind the financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  • Schiavo's Legacy: The Value of Life in a Nation That Cheapens It
  • 11/28/2011
  • (Alan Sears, Townhall.com) - Terri Schiavo would have been 48 this December 3 ... not a major mile-marker among we, the living, but a cause for reflection for those who loved her, and for all those who fought so valiantly to save her, in those terrible years and months and days before she was starved to death, by court order, in March, 2005.