OTTAWA — When Kate Durie and Emma Woodman host Ottawa’s first Death Café in June — part of a growing global movement to encourage people to gather and talk openly and publicly about death, loss and grief — they will draw on vastly different experiences.
Durie was...
THOMAS Dignum is among the Lower Mainland residents going to bat for the B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation next weekend at a fundraising slo-pitch tournament.
The 12-year-old West Vancouver resident and Grade 6 student at Ridgeview elementary is not only going to have an opportunity...
The world's first Brain Training Device has given a ray of new hope to the recovery of survivors after stroke. Developed by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering (BME), this novel device which can detect...
The following is a script from "Invisible Wounds" which aired on May 5, 2013. David Martin is the correspondent. Mary Walsh, producer.
We all learned a lot in recent years about the dangers of head injuries from contact sports like football. We now know that a hard hit can cause...
Nicholas Spitzer and Davide Dulcis felt for people in higher latitudes whose attitudes soured in the shorter daylight hours of winter.
The neuroscientists, who work in balmy San Diego, wondered whether summer was a bummer for rats. They’re nocturnal, after all.
That thought...
Prince Harry has opened the new headquarters of a brain injury charity supported by his mother, during his first official visit to Nottingham.
He was greeted by hundreds of schoolchildren as he opened the head office of Headway where Diana, Princess of Wales, served as royal patron.
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Former Calgary Flames captain Jim Peplinski, known best for his skills as a bruiser on the ice, is calling for a nationwide ban on bodychecking until at least the age of 16 to curb the concussion rates plaguing hockey.
The Stanley Cup winner, who played in 711 career NHL games, scoring...
As the National Hockey League and provincial major junior leagues grind into playoff season, provincial and local minor hockey associations across the country go into annual general meeting mode.
Now is the time for parents to instruct the minor hockey bureaucrats to whom...
Dr. Chiaravalloti receives $526,206 National Institutes of Health grant to study challenges faced by caregivers of persons with TBI
Kessler Foundation is one four sites participating in "Quality of Life in Caregivers of Traumatic Brain Injury...
SEATTLE, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One Mind for Research announced today that Wounded Warrior Project(R) (WWP) has pledged $3.5 million in support of One Mind's "Gemini Program," contingent upon One Mind securing additional funding. "The Gemini Program...
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