Category Archives: Brain Damage
Researchers Find Learning Ability Restored After Brain Injury With New Cells
According to Science News, a study conducted on mice showed that newborn nerve cells may help heal the brain after a traumatic injury. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center published in the Journal of Neuroscience a finding that could help treat brain injured patients with new nerve cells. Doctors have known that adult brains can make new neurons in two parts of the brain, but the role of those cells has not been clear. Some scientists suggest that generating new nerve cells may be a way to build a new brain during development and has no affect on the adult brain at all. Others argue that new wiring hooks up new brain cells and sometimes can cause seizures due to wire tangling. The new study suggests that newborn neurons made in the hippocampus are beneficial, at least in aiding recovery after a traumatic brain injury. The hippocampus…
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St. Cloud Hospital Successful at Brain Cooling Therapy for Infant
According to WQOW TV, St. Cloud Hospital has successfully cooled an infant to prevent or reduce the severity of brain injury. It is believed to be the first time a hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been able to reduce brain injury through the brain cooling method. Oliver Manlove, son of Renee and Kenny Manlove, was delivered full term but was deprived of oxygen during birth. He was transferred by helicopter to St. Loud Hospital for cooling. The NICU team utilized the total body cooling therapy. Therapeutic body cooling or hypothermia has been used at St. Cloud Hospital since 2005 to treat adult cardiac arrest patients. Cooling an infant can reduce the severity of a brain injury. Brain injuries during birth can result in life-long complications such as cerebral palsy, as well as developmental problems. Doctors start to cool an infant as soon as possible, the sooner a baby is…
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Abbott Laboratories Sued Over Infant Formula, Alleging Enterobacter Sakazakii Contamination
According to the Sioux City Journal, a Sioux City bank has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 3 year old girl against a maker of a powdered infant formula. According to court records, Security National Bank alleges that Jeanine Kunkel contracted neonatal Enterobacter sakazakii meningitis from the Similar formula made by Abbott Laboratories. The lawsuit alleges that Jeanine suffered permanent brain damage from drinking contaminated infant formula. The bank is acting as the child’s conservator. Her parents say that she changed drastically soon after drinking Similac powdered formula, which came in a complimentary bag provided by the St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center at the time of her discharge. Within 24 hours the newborn appeared to be acting differently, reports her mother. She was crying and appeared to be very uncomfortable. Jeanine was diagnosed with the strain of meningitis at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, she was about…
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