Word: trauma
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...specialist in tissue engineering with an emphasis on designing heart tissue, Parker said he hopes to use his expertise to find ways to save soldiers suffering from severe brain trauma...
...Parker said that as an outsider to the field of brain trauma, he may be able to bring new insights to the treatment of severe brain injuries...
When I was but a wee lad of eight, a devious coach whipped a baseball at my head. The force of the pitch knocked me to the ground and changed me forever. No, I didn’t lose brain cells from the trauma. And no, it doesn’t explain my huge nose. Instead, I learned that athletes are simply wicked people...
...image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. Perhaps no one was more shocked - or had more to lose - than members of Kenya's middle class, who seemed comfortably ensconced in Westernized modernity after more than 40 years of economic growth without major political trauma. They watched as ethnic clashes left more than 1,000 Kenyans dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, and as those decades of hard-earned economic progress threatened to unravel. The violence had assumed an unsettling ethnic character that saw neighbor turn against neighbor with machetes and other crude weapons. As militia...
...wife, Lamyaa al-Saadi, causing the loss of sight in her left eye, skull and jaw fractures, hearing loss and scarring to her face. Her son Ahmed, then 8, was blinded in the right eye from glass splinters from the windscreen; Mr. al-Saadi and other children suffered mental trauma. They also allege the Australian soldiers failed to give them medical assistance. They claim they were given no warning before the soldiers opened fire...