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Frederick Rallies Around Athlete Who Suffered Brain Injury During School Football Game
Two Maryland highschools were facing off under the Friday night lights when a play during the season’s first scrimmage left a teammate hospitalized.
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Student Athlete Airlifted After Suffering Brain Injury During Football Game
There’s often excitement at the first game of the season, but that joy was crushed when a student suffered and injury on the field at a high school in Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward reports the high schooler’s recovery.
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Maryland Man Celebrates 30th Birthday After Brain Injury
Sean MacCrory has been reaching milestones and surpassing them for most of his life.
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Prince George's County Man Who Overcame Major Adversity Turns 30
Sean MacCrory’s brain injury doesn’t stop him from living life.
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Boxer Patrick Day Dies After Suffering Brain Injury During Chicago Bout
Boxer Patrick Day has died days after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a bout on Saturday at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena, according to manager Lou DiBella.
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Boxer Says He's ‘Devastated' by Opponent's Death After Maryland Match
A boxer says he’s “devastated” over the death of his opponent after their fight at MGM National Harbor in Maryland on Friday. The state has ruled he will be suspended for 30 days.
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Boxer in Medically Induced Coma After Match at MGM National Harbor
Russian-born boxer Maxim Dadashev is being treated at Prince George’s Medical Center, after an injury he suffered during a match at MGM National Harbor on Friday night. News4’s Tracee Wilkins has the story.
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US Investigates Seizure Risk With Electronic Cigarettes
U.S. health officials are investigating whether electronic cigarettes may trigger seizures in some people who use the nicotine-vaping devices. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has reviewed 35 reports of seizures among e-cigarettes users, mainly in young people. Regulators stressed it’s not yet clear whether vaping is responsible. But they said they’re concerned and encouraged the public to...
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Desperate & Duped? GoFundMe Means Big Bucks for Dubious Care, Study Finds
People seeking dubious, potentially harmful treatment for cancer and other ailments raised nearly $7 million over two years from crowdfunding sites, a study found. Echoing recent research on campaigns for stem cell therapies, the findings raise more questions about an increasingly popular way to help pay for costly, and sometimes unproven, medical care. Soliciting money on GoFundMe and other sites...
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Georgia High School Football Player Injured in Game Dies
A football player at a Georgia high school has died from a severe brain injury. News outlets report Pike County High School student Dylan Thomas was hurt during a game Friday night and flown to a hospital in critical condition. Thomas’ uncle, Nick Burgess, says Thomas was hit in the second quarter of the game and later collapsed on the...
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New Advice on Kids' Concussions Calls for Better Tracking
New children’s concussion guidelines from the U.S. government recommend against routine X-rays and blood tests for diagnosis and reassure parents that most kids’ symptoms clear up within one to three months. Signs of potentially more serious injuries that may warrant CT imaging scans include vomiting, unconsciousness and severe, worsening headaches, according to the guidelines released Tuesday. The guidelines from the...
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US Pulls 2 More Workers From Cuban Embassy Amid New Potential Health Cases
The United States has pulled out two more of its workers from its embassy in Cuba and is testing them for possible brain injury, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, amid concerns they may have been affected by mysterious health incidents harming U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China. The two individuals are considered “potentially new cases” but...
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HS Football Player Debilitated by Head Injury Awarded $7.1M in Settlement Over Negligence Lawsuit
The Grossmont Union High School District agreed to pay more than 7 million dollars to a South Bay family after their teenage son was injured in a freshman football game. The family claimed the coaching staff failed to recognize concussion symptoms and put him back in the game after becoming aware of his injury.
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NFL Players Warn Parents of Tackle Football Dangers, CTE
Just in time for the Super Bowl, a group of former NFL linebackers is pleading with parents to keep their children out of tackle football until high school to avoid traumatic brain injuries. The retired players, Nick Buoniconti, Harry Carson and Phil Villapiano, are recommending flag football for children under 14 as a way to protect their brains at a...
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Medical Marijuana Could Help the NFL Cure the Illness Menacing Players' Brains, Activists Say
With much of the NFL world camped out in the San Francisco Bay Area in the days before Super Bowl 50, researchers released sobering news: late Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler had a degenerative brain disease associated with repeated blows to the head. Dozens of former players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, some who died in old age,...
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US Expels 15 Diplomats Following Havana Attacks
The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana.
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This Veteran's Invention Turns a Gun Into a Machine Gun
An Air Force veteran who wanted a fast-shooting rifle but couldn’t afford one that was fully automatic invented the “bump stocks” now gaining unwanted attention for their possible role in the Las Vegas concert massacre, NBC News reported. “We weren’t able to fire as fast as we wanted,” Jeremiah Cottle recalled in a 2011 interview with a local newspaper, The...
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US Orders 15 Cuban Diplomats to Leave Embassy in DC
The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countries to levels unseen in years. Only days ago, the U.S. and Cuba maintained dozens of diplomats in newly re-opened embassies in Havana and Washington, powerful symbols of a warming relationship between longtime foes....
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Doctor Shot in Hospital Rampage Recalls Going Down, Then Opening Eyes: ‘I Realized at That Moment I'm Not Dead'
One of the doctors wounded in last Friday’s rampage shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital vividly recalls the moment the “angry” gunman, dressed in black boots and a white lab coat, stormed the room and began firing.
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NFL Sought to Influence Study on Brain Injuries: Report
National Football League officials improperly sought to influence a government study on the link between football and brain disease, according to a senior House Democrat in a report issued Monday. New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone says the league tried to strong-arm the National Institutes of Health into taking the project away from a researcher that the NFL feared was biased....