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Treatment of Trauma to Brain Is Studied Techniques being used to treat psychological lapses from traumatic brain injuries, the signature wounds suffered by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, appear to be helpful, but lack rigorous scientific support, a government-appointed panel reported Tuesday after completing the most comprehensive analysis of the evidence to date.

Motorcycle riders injured in Clinton Twp. flown by helicopter to hospital after crashing trying to avoid deer CLINTON TWP. - Two motorcycle riders, one from Flushing, N.Y., and the other from Englewood, crashed on Route 629 near Fawn Ridge Drive when two deer ran into the roadway and struck the first rider's motorbike. Both men suffered moderate injuries and were flown by helicopter to Morristown Memorial Hospital for treatment, police said.

CLINTON TWP. - Two motorcycle riders, one from Flushing, N.Y., and the other from Englewood, crashed on Route 629 near Fawn Ridge Drive when two deer ran into the roadway and struck the first rider's motorbike. Both men suffered moderate injuries and were flown by helicopter to Morristown Memorial Hospital for treatment, police said.

"(CNN) -- A 2-year-old Mississippi girl is the first child to be "functionally cured" of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. Researchers said they believe early intervention -- in this case within 30 hours of birth -- with three anti-viral drugs was key to the outcome. A "functional cure" is when the presence of the virus is so small, lifelong treatment is not necessary and standard clinical tests cannot detect the virus in the blood."

Owens, 22, is under medical care, about to resume his education at the University of Central Arkansas. He can never play a contact sport again. He is also one of four plaintiffs in a class-action suit that claims the N.C.A.A. has been negligent regarding awareness and treatment of brain injuries to athletes.

Healthy men should no longer receive a P.S.A. blood test to screen for prostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain, impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel has decided.

Techniques being used to treat psychological lapses from traumatic brain injuries, the signature wounds suffered by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, appear to be helpful, but lack rigorous scientific support, a government-appointed panel reported Tuesday after completing the most comprehensive analysis of the evidence to date.

Techniques being used to treat psychological lapses from traumatic brain injuries, the signature wounds suffered by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, appear to be helpful, but lack rigorous scientific support, a government-appointed panel reported Tuesday after completing the most comprehensive analysis of the evidence to date.

Techniques being used to treat psychological lapses from traumatic brain injuries, the signature wounds suffered by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, appear to be helpful, but lack rigorous scientific support, a government-appointed panel reported Tuesday after completing the most comprehensive analysis of the evidence to date.

After weeks of waiting, an American researcher who suffered a suspected stroke while working at the South Pole has arrived in New Zealand for evaluation and treatment.

n his last years, Steven P. Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.