Trauma/Injury

New York, May 13, 2021 - The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health (HDPFH) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health announced today the creation of the Jennifer Schlecht Memorial Scholarship for Sexual and…

Pilot study of micro-fragmented adipose tissue injection suggests that the biologic is an effective treatment option for wheelchair users with chronic shoulder painCredit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks East Hanover, NJ. May 12,…

What The Study Did: Researchers describe overdose deaths in San Francisco before and after the initial COVID-19 shelter-in-place order to try to make clear whether characteristics of fatal overdoses changed during this time in an effort…

Credit: CREDIT Courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj Digital Medicine Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which COVID-19 patients would develop…

Parag Chitnis, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Pilgyu Kang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Siddhartha Sikdar, Professor, Bioengineering, and Qi Wei, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, received $499,977 from the U.S.…

The Safe System approach, shown to be highly successful in reducing road deaths and injuries abroad, also seen as way to improve safety and equity in historically underserved communities in the US A new approach to road safety that relies…

Results published in the journal Concussion indicate that use of cooling technology hastened safe return to play for players of top Swedish hockey league teamsCredit: PolarCool LUND, Sweden--May 11, 2021--PolarCool AB (publ), a Swedish…

Credit: Chris Thelen, Freelance Photographer Cells called astrocytes normally support our neurons, and now scientists are working to reprogram the star-shaped cells into neurons that help reconnect the brain and body after a spinal…

Stimulators win top award at circuitry conference, could aid spinal cord, heart therapiesCredit: Secure and Intelligent Micro-Systems Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 10, 2021) - Implants that require a steady source of power but…

University of South Florida Health preclinical study finds that inhibiting lipoxygenase with a drug alters innate inflammatory response, delaying heart tissue repair after cardiac injuryCredit: USF Health/University of South Florida …

May 7, 2021 - Among collegiate football players and other athletes, Black athletes recognize fewer concussion-related symptoms than their White counterparts, reports a study in the May/June issue of the Journal of Head Trauma…

Just as people keep their houses clean and clutter under control, a crew of cells in the body is in charge of clearing the waste the body generates, including dying cells. The housekeeping cells remove unwanted material by a process…

Credit: IOF The International Osteoporosis Foundation is delighted to announce that the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) has presented the prestigious 2021 ECTS Steven Boonen Clinical Research Award to its President, Professor…

The Geneva Foundation funds two-year study of Cervigard Neck Collar in active-duty service members with neck pain. The study is part of the Musculoskeletal Injury Rehabilitation Research for Operational Readiness (MIRROR) programCredit:…

Current guidelines for managing osteoporosis specifically call out hip or spine fractures for increasing the risk for subsequent bone breaks. But a new UCLA-led study suggests that fractures in the arm, wrist, leg and other parts of the…

Educating athletes, parents and coaches about concussion treatment and prevention has been a priority during the last decade, but are the intended audiences hearing the message? New research from the University of Michigan found that 1…

UMass Amherst biomedical engineer awarded NIH Trailblazer grant to advance promising researchCredit: Created and exported from Biorender.com under a paid subscription. Imagine harnessing the proliferating power of cancer cells…

New approaches to battlefield brain injuriesCredit: UT Arlington chair of the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating whether a combination of nanoparticles and light therapy can…

Exposure during occupational training is linked to biomarkers of brain damage Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research demonstrated that biomarkers associated with traumatic brain injury were elevated among law enforcement…

What The Study Did: Inquiries to a child abuse hotline during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with inquiries during the same period the previous year are assessed in this study. Authors: Robin Ortiz, M.D., of the University of…