Brain Damage
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Wildfire smoke may increase risk of brain disease, research suggestsSeveral researchers have started looking into how fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke can enter the body and travel to the brain.HealthAug 23, 2023
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Amber Athwal showing progress after stem cell treatment, dad saysMore than four years after Amber Athwal was in a coma and suffered brain damage after a dental procedure, her father says the little girl is showing progress.HealthDec 7, 2020
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‘Amazing’: Vision returns for girl, 4, who was blinded by flu complicationsJade DeLucia suffered brain damage and vision loss because of a 'rare complication' following a case of the flu.TrendingMar 9, 2020
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‘They’ve destroyed his life’: Family’s appeal after West End attack leaves man with brain damage"They had to take out his whole frontal lobe to save his life, so who he was as a person, it's completely gone now," Andrew Kurra's sister told Global News.CrimeDec 23, 2019
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Video shows vehicle speeding before crash that left Saanich 11-year-old with brain damageThe judge in the case left the court ahead of closing arguments to drive the accused's route himself.CrimeDec 2, 2019
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B.C. man suffers skull fracture in alleged sucker punch outside Vancouver bar"The injury sustained shattered a bone beneath his eye, a large fracture and lacerations, and of course bruising to the eye itself," said the victim's mother.CrimeOct 28, 2019
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Man with short-term memory loss uses notebooks to help him rememberThe only way one Taiwanese man can remember anything is to write it down.HealthNov 16, 2018
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Communication breakthrough: ‘Her whole world is going to open up’Using eye-gaze detection software, a severely disabled Nova Scotia woman is communicating with her family for the first time in 21 years.CanadaJan 2, 2018
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Woman with brain injury communicates for the first time in 21 years in ‘Christmas Miracle’Louise Misner says her daughter, Joellan Huntley, used eye motion cameras and software on an iPad to respond to a comment Misner made about what Joellen was wearing on Christmas Day.CanadaDec 29, 2017
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B.C. rodeo star Ty Pozzobon had CTE brain condition when he diedBrain researchers say champion bull rider Ty Pozzobon had a chronic brain condition, most commonly found in professional and college football players before he died of suicide.HealthOct 11, 2017
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