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Beautiful Victoria, B.C. hosts Brain Injury Canada's Semi Annual Conference supported by Dr. Daniel C Andreae.
April 5 - 6, 2016 at the Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel & Marina. Breathe in the fresh ocean air from rooms with balconies and sliding glass doors!
Registration and full speaker list available at wwww.braininjurycanada.ca
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Brain Injury Canada Annual Conference
September 27 - 29, 2016 — Toronto, ON
Send your submission by March 25th to torontoconference2016@braininjurycanada.ca READ MORE
Health Chat
The ABI Behaviour Services program at West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto and The Toronto ABI Network is hosting this 75 minute webinar on April 12, 2016.
The webinar is about patients that have sustained a brain injury and are demonstrating behaviours that impede care and/or admission to inpatient ABI rehabilitation. READ MORE
DATE: November 10 & 11, 2016
LOCATION: Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Phone: 416-597-3422 ext. 3448
Email: conferences@uhn.ca
Registration will open in June. The Call for Abstracts will open March 3, 2016
Event Website: http://www.abinetwork.ca/
Call for Abstracts: http://abi.call-for-papers.ca/
SportsNet
A federal judge has ordered the NFL's pension plan to pay higher disability benefits to a retired player who apparently is suffering from an illness caused by multiple concussions. Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled last week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore that the pension plan must pay former linebacker Jesse Solomon football degenerative benefits. READ MORE
Global News
From the professional to the junior leagues, concussions are just the reality of some sports. However, when it comes to testing blows to the head, there are exams physicians do, but there is no way to definitively determine if a person has experienced a concussion. The neuroscience team at the University of Lethbridge is trying to change exactly that through a simple urine sample. READ MORE
Toronto Star
The last time my son had hockey skates on, his team was winning the league championship. "I didn't really like being on the ice," he told me that night in his room, which is crammed with NHL banners, posters and pucks. He's a hockey maniac to the core of his 8-year-old soul, a kid who is astonished when I can't, for example, list the top goal scorers of the Winnipeg Jets in descending order. READ MORE
Yahoo News
An NFL official has finally admitted what the football-watching world has believed for a long time: There's a link between football, head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, otherwise known as CTE. That's what Jeff Miller, the NFL's senior vice president for health and safety, said during a roundtable discussion on concussions in front of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce, according to ESPN. READ MORE
Medical News
Traumatic brain injury appears to be related to both increased risk and earlier onset of mild cognitive impairment. Researchers discovered those who had experienced a traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness for more than five minutes were at greater risk of being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, and showed signs of that impairment 2.3 years earlier on average than those with no TBI history. READ MORE
TIME
When I was 12, I was hit by a car while crossing the street. I cracked my head on the windshield and was raced to the hospital. CT scans showed several fractures to my skull, but that wasn't all—it also showed a pre-existing, grapefruit-sized brain tumor in my cerebellum, so large that it was close to killing me. Without the accident, we'd likely never have discovered the tumor until it was too late. READ MORE
Huffington Post
As a 29-year-old woman, I felt I was kicking butt and taking names! I finished graduate school, I was living and working in the most amazing cities in the world. My career was taking off so fast I could barely keep up. On the morning of Dec. 21, 2013, I began to experience mind-numbing headaches and painful shooting pains up and down my body. READ MORE
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