Up to 20 percent of U.S. college students suffer from the long-term affects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to recent studies at the University of Central Florida. In response, the university is launching a TBI program to provide academic rehabilitation to students with this condition. It is the first university in the […]

A Florida jury has ordered Mitsubishi to pay $11 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 25-year-old man who died after being partially ejected from a 2000 Montero SUV. Attorneys for Donna and Peter Laliberte argued that Mitsubishi knew about seat belt problems with its SUV model and released a newer version […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that medical device makers are protected from personal injury lawsuits, so long as the Food and Drug Administration approved the device before it was marketed and it meets the agency’s specifications, The New York Times reports. The types of devices that have been subject of lawsuits in the […]

Unidentified damage from a past traumatic brain injury could be the unlikely source of problems ranging from poor memory and learning difficulties to behavioral changes such as homelessness and alcoholism, according to new research reported in The Wall Street Journal. New York’s Mt. Sinai School of Medicine has found that brain injury therapy often […]