Sentences with phrase «brain damaged at»

He has the distinction of having achieved the the state's largest medical malpractice award — a $ 40 million verdict for a baby brain damaged at birth.

Higgins has the distinction of having achieved the the state's largest medical malpractice award — a $ 40 million verdict for a baby brain damaged at birth.

Although brain damaged at the age of 5 months, Toby has found his niche and a purpose in life at the pet rescue by offering love and comfort care to young foster kittens with special needs.

A baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu was confirmed to have been infected by the Zika virus, that state's department of health said.

I didn't breast or bottle feed my daughter, she was tube fed and still is after suffering catastrophic brain damage at birth following a lack of oxygen in my labour, leaving her with severe cerebral palsy.

Cuomo's proposal would cap non-economic damages — also known as pain - and - suffering awards — to $ 250,000 and would create an insurance fund for babies that suffer brain damage at birth.

The state Bar Association plans to put on a «full - court press» to fight the MRT's proposal to cap so - called pain - and - suffering awards at $ 250,000 and create an insurance fund for babies that suffer brain damage at birth.

That feels like brain damage at the end.

Legal aid is due to be withdrawn from clinical negligence in April 2013, but an exception has been made for babies who suffer brain damage at birth or are injured in the first eight weeks of life, and for women who are injured during pregnancy or labour.

Medical Negligence - A 48 year old woman suffered severe brain damage at a Chicagoland hospital after surgery to alleviate sleep apnea.

Jacobs & Jacobs obtained a record verdict in the case of a boy who sustained severe brain damage at birth due to the negligence of the hospital and its personnel.

David had to be supervised at all times by an adult, because he suffered brain damage at birth and dealt with myoclonic seizure disorder and psychomotor retardation.

Deals with all aspects of clinical injury including brain damage at birth, head injuries, gynaecology, obstetric cases, cardiology, spinal injury, general surgery, cancer cases, dental cases, fatal accident claims and Court of Protection work.

Not exact matches

Despite her brain damage, she slowly made her way through college and even got accepted into the graduate program at Princeton.

Every time you multitask you aren't just harming your performance in the moment; you may very well be damaging an area of your brain that's critical to your future success at work.

Doctor told Mr Justice MacDonald at the family division of the High Court that the infant suffered catastrophic brain damage when he was deprived of oxygen at birth.

Doctors told the judge that Isaiah suffered «catastrophic» brain damage due to being deprived of oxygen at birth.

The brains trust at BVB need to act fast like Fcb and get into damage control and get Mauricio Pellegrino from Southampton.

Damaging your brain at a younger age gives you a important advantage when it comes to dealing with adversity and prepares you for the memory loss and confusion that your likely to experience as a elderly.

Emmert has been a brain - damaged, sputtering fartcloud of a bureaucrat in his tenure at the NCAA, but so was Myles Brand, a perfectly intelligent human being who could not define what the NCAA did in Congressional hearings.

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

I was in town reporting on brain damage in fighters, and had met a fellow at a kickboxing fight earlier in the week who mentioned that he could take me to The Money Team mecca itself, and I, like a brawler capitalizing on opportunity in the midst of bare - knuckle madness, jumped at the chance.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage even when, at the start of labor, breech, twins, VBAC.

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

If I had been stubborn and insisted on a «natural birth» my daughter would have at minimum suffered brain damage.

A brain damaged child at two may or may not be noticeably different from any other child, but the gap can widen as more complex skills are acquired.

During those minutes the baby's injured brain continues to swell, and brain damage may actually increase over that present at birth.

Yet another baby has been placed at risk of significant brain damage and possible death because the clueless homebirth midwives didn't understand how to diagnose fetal distress.

You can either choose to labor at home and have a much higher chance of being that heartbroken woman outside the NICU for weeks praying desperately that medical technology and a team of specialists will keep your baby alive and as minimally brain damaged as possible, or you can have a higher chance of having a 4 inch scar somewhere nobody will never see.

Brain damage associated with anoxia, baby died at 16 days

Giza speculates that youth may be at greater risk for more severe damage from concussion because developing brains lack myelin, the covering that protects axons.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

When compared with babies born vaginally in the hospital, babies born at homebirth had a rate of hypoxic brain damage 32 times higher, suggesting that C - sections dramatically decreased the risk of hypoxic brain injury.

Were their kids really at risk for brain damage and long - term relationship problems?

Do NOT decline this shot as without vitamin K, your baby could be at risk for sudden and serious bleeding in the brain or intestines which could be life threatening or lead to permanent brain damage and even death.

Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that could lead to dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, brain scientists are warning.

Name ONE midwife that is facing prosecution simply for showing up at the birth where there was NO dead baby, brain damaged baby, near dead PPH mother or other complete mismanagement of the labor and delivery.

In addition, the nurses at the hospital where I had my emergency c - section told me the story of one woman who fell asleep in a chair holding her newborn and dropped the baby, leading to brain damage (hello, scare tactics, anyone?!).

At very high levels, bilirubin can cause brain damage, but this is rare.

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

The higher death rate and brain damage rate at home accounts for the ones who the midwife thought would be fine, but they were not.

(Babies born at home are significantly more likely to suffer from brain damage than babies born in a hospital.)

At the hospital, family members were told the boy was in a coma and had suffered severe brain damage.

At 11 a.m., NYC mayoral candidate and state Sen. Tony Avella demands that the Montefiore Hospital release information on the investigation into the assault on Seong Soo Kim that resulted in severe brain damage, Montefiore Hospital, Moses Campus, 111 E. 210 St., Bronx.

Also at 11 a.m., Sen. Tony Avella holds a press conference with Helen Kim, Christine Colligan and members of the Korean community to demand that the Montefiore Hospital release information on their yearlong investigation into the assault on Seong Soo Kim that resulted in severe brain damage, Montefiore Hospital, Moses Campus, 111 E. 210th St., the Bronx.

Mr. Maynard sustained serious brain damage in a fall from an exterior staircase at his house in the summer of 2014.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.