War injury leads to advances at home

Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 23:07 in Health & Medicine

The military takes the lead in brain trauma research, giving hope to wounded civilians of a 'silent epidemic.' A world away from the roadside bombs and combat injuries of Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are suffering the same type of brain injury seen in troops coming home from those war-torn countries. On American roads, at workplaces and on playing fields, more than 11 million...

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