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Debate Over Consent in Progesterone Treatment of TBI Victims

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Doehrman Chamberlain

We have previously written about some of the remarkable recoveries that traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims have made after being enrolled in clinical trials using the pregnancy hormone progesterone. One key catch in those progesterone treatment cases was that a family member of the victims gave consent to doctors to include their loved ones in those trials. As doctors continue to study whether giving a patient progesterone could prevent further neurologic damage, what does that mean for TBI victims who arrive in emergency rooms unconscious without any family members who can speak on their behalf? On June 8, the Boston Globe reported that a group of Boston doctors is proposing to join a study that would provide emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victims’ consent for that very reason. “We have a devastating disease that causes tremendous lifelong disability for people around the country and around the…
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Indianapolis Brain Injury Attorneys Praise Decades of Contributions by Arlene Korab

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Doehrman Chamberlain

We are extremely proud of our firm’s work in conjunction with the Brain Injury Association of Indiana, the first charter chapter of the national Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). Of course, because an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year, there has since been state chapters formed all over the nation. One of the BIAA chapters that has helped countless families in its community is the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts (BIA-MA). The founder of that organization, Arlene Korab, will be retiring from BIA-MA at the end of the month. Korab has been the executive director of BIA-MA for more than 20 years, but she helped found the organization in 1982 after her son sustained a TBI in a car accident. Korab is credited with several impressive accomplishments during her tenure at BIA-MA, including the establishment of the Statewide Head Injury Program, a division…
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Two Recent TBI Stories Demonstrate One Major Issue for Families of Victims

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Doehrman Chamberlain

Two families on opposite side of the country shared a similar concern when their loved ones, both of whom are traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims, went missing. On June 2, WPTZ-TV reported that Vermont State Police were asking for help in finding Mark Perron, a 52-year-old man who had been missing for more than 24 hours after a neighbor last saw Perron at D&L Beverage in East Hardwick, Vermont. According to New England Cable News, police said Perron is an alcoholic and has some difficulty walking. WCAX-TV reported that Perron “had 14 bullets from a pellet gun lodged in his skull and was unrecognizable” after being beaten by two men in June 2012 over a grudge. While Vermont State Police later canceled that missing persons report, family and volunteers in San Francisco were still looking for 19-year-old Sean Sidi. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Sidi sustained a TBI in…
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