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07/23/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Supplemental nutrition found to treat brain injury better than prescriptions, and may even provide some protection against injury

Concussions are part of any contact sport. However, while most injuries are rarely fatal, these injuries may affect long-term brain function. One novel approach to recovery being looked at recently is the use of nutritional supplementation to treat sports-related concussions. In a review led by researchers from the Texas Christian University, the team pored through available information to determine […]

03/05/2018 / By David Williams

U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues approval for first blood test for concussions… but is it accurate?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just finished screening the first diagnostic blood test that can be used to evaluate the severity of what it calls mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) – concussions, to the layperson – and interestingly, it has approved the same for marketing. The blood test is called the Banyan […]

12/27/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Female brains are delicate and more vulnerable to concussions than the brains of men – study

Women have fought long and hard for the right to be viewed as equal to men. Most of us would be loathed to admit that we are more fragile or delicate than men in any way, but unfortunately, there are some biological ways in which women are not quite as tough as the opposite gender. […]

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