Don Cherry, Concussions & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Hockey, War & Cars
AN OPEN LETTER TO DON CHERRY Hi Don, I’m your neighbour, just a few blocks down from your place. I watched you on CBC ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ the other evening talking about former NHL hockey enforcers complaining about concussions and brain trauma. Imagine that! Don, I like watching you but you seem a bit misguided. I really want to help you. So in order that you be able to make more informed choices before speaking, I am enclosing a bit of information on brain trauma injury and concussions. I love hockey but then I only watch it, haven’t played it since I was a...
Read MoreImagine: Stopping Cell Death – Impact on Medicine
Overview Accelerated cell death or ‘apoptosis’ contributes to about half of all major medical illnesses for which adequate therapy or prevention is currently lacking. This has created an important opportunity for medical science and is creating an emerging multi-billion dollar market. Against this background of a rapidly emerging new market, a number of companies are developing several new drug classes which directly addresses apoptosis either by slowing down the process of cell death (eg. heart attacks, strokes, brain trauma, etc.) or instead, accelerating the rate of cell...
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