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Posted on 2012-01-05 06:00:00 in Bioengineering | Regenerative Medicine | Trauma |

Johns Hopkins University (US) team develops a new hydrogel compound that functions as an artificial skin dressing.

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Posted on 2011-08-25 06:00:00 in Stroke | Trauma |

People who experience traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at substantially increased risk of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes up to five years later.

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Posted on 2011-08-08 06:00:00 in Alzheimer's Disease | Brain and Mental Performance | Trauma |

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), whether mild, moderate, or severe, is linked to a doubling of dementia risk.

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Posted on 2010-05-28 06:00:00 in Trauma |

Alterations in the blood flow of the brain caused by high blood pressure and other conditions have been found to signficantly increase the risk of falling.

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Posted on 2010-05-25 06:00:00 in Bone and Dental | Trauma | Vitamins |

Older women given a single annual high-dose of vitamin D have been found to be at  increased risk of falls and fractures.

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Posted on 2010-01-05 06:00:00 in Brain chips/computer interface | Stroke | Trauma |

First successful demonstration by Boston University (US) researchers of a permanently installed, wireless implant to amplify, convert, and sort speech signaling in the brain, and then decode the signals into commands relayed to an external speech synthesizer.

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Posted on 2009-12-01 07:52:11 in Mechanisms of Aging | Trauma |

Brown University (USA) researchers identify an accelerated reduction of telomere length in those who experienced physical or emotional trauma in childhood.

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Posted on 2009-10-29 06:00:00 in Diabetes | Trauma |

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (USA) researchers discover a new way to control internal bleeding, potentially saving thousands of lives at-risk due to trauma from car crashes or battlefield injuries, as well as severe infections and diabetic complications.

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Posted on 2009-10-13 06:51:29 in Health Disparities | Trauma |

Adults who experienced extreme psychological trauma in youth have a two-fold increased risk of death.

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Good Habits Lead to Good Health
In that a number of studies link unhealthy behaviors to accelerated declines in thinking and memory skills, these also can readily be remedied. Researchers from the Hopital Paul Brousse (France) studied 5,123 men and women civil service office workers in London enrolled in the Whitehall II study. Subjects were surveyed for health behaviors (smoking, dietary habits, daily activity) at 44 years of age, 56 years, and 61 years...