Millions of children and teens are affected by sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) annually. To help reduce the effects of TBIs in youth sports, all 50 states and the District of Columbia enacted state youth TBI laws between 2009 and 2014. A new study from researchers in the Center for Injury Research and […]
'They’re all at risk': alarming number of teens suffer head injuries
Duncan Evans' sporting prowess is a source of pride to his parents. Yet his mother Fran said she worries about the risk of head injury every time her 18-year-old son, who plays for the Randwick Rugby Club, takes to the pitch. Fran Evans, pictured with her son Duncan, said there is always a risk of […]
Health Tip: If Your Head Posture is Unusual
— If your head isn’t typically kept upright and is leaning forward, backward, to the left or right, there could be various causes involving vision, the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus says. Here’s the association’s partial list of examples: Eye misalignment: A person may compensate for misaligned eyes in order to prevent double […]
The NHS is ‘subconsciously racist’, claims the head of the BMA
The NHS is ‘subconsciously racist’ and doesn’t promote enough BME doctors, claims the head of the British Medical Association Dr Chaand Nagpaul admits the NHS has ‘moved a long way’ since the Eighties He claims that he was rejected from GP training 9 times because of his name The NHS employs 100,000 doctors, of which a […]
Clinical trial suggests new direction for heavy-smoking head and neck cancer patients
Patients with a greater than 10 pack/year history of smoking tend to develop an especially dangerous form of head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) for which prognosis remains poor and treatments have changed little during the past two decades. However, recent phase 1 clinical trial results by the Head and Neck Cancer Group at […]
Give your child a head start with math
(HealthDay)—Many kids struggle with math—and for a number of reasons. Knowing when to be concerned will allow you to get your child study help early on, which is important because research shows that young children who have difficulty with math typically will continue to struggle as they get older. Signs of math difficulties can start […]