Dear Colleagues,
It is with pleasure that we share with you the 2010 Federal Disability Report, released by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
The report can be accessed in HTML or PDF format.
Print and alternate formats (Large Print, Braille, Audio Cassette, Audio CD, e-Text Diskette, e-Text CD or DAISY) can be ordered by phone, TTY, fax, mail or online.
Phone: 1 800 O Canada (1 800 622 6232)
TTY: 1 800 926 9105.
Fax: 819-953-7260 (long distance charges will apply)
Mail: Publications Services, HRSDC, 140 Promenade du Portage, Phase IV, 12th Floor, Gatineau, QC, K1A 0J9
Online: http://www12.hrsdc.gc.ca
Kind regards,
The Office for Disability Issues
In This Issue:
- Stem Cell Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury – An Overview of Different In-vivo/In-vitro Experimental Settings
- Neurotologic Consequences of Blast Injury
- Chemosensory Impairment after Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management
- Evaluation and Treatment Planning in Children with TBI
- Articles of Note
- Meetings of Note:
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Craig lives in Gander, Newfoundland.
Here is his story: Craig Dunn’s Story
You can write to Craig at c.dunn@nl.rogers.com
Acquired Brain Injury
2011 PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE
Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls
Wednesday, November 2 — Friday, November 4, 2011
2011 Provincial ABI Conference: Call for Abstracts (pdf)
A conference for paediatricians, family pracitioners, physician trainees, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and allied health professionals.
Registration is now open! Register here!
Clinical & Metabolic Genetics Specialty Day – Over 25 workshop sessions – Saturday Quick Hits
Two pre-conference courses:
Paediatric Emergency Medicine Course (APLS)
Neonatal and Young Infant Skills Workshop
When: Wednesday, April 27 to Saturday, April 30, 2011
Where: The Toronto Board of Trade, 77 Adelaide Street West, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada
Paediatric Update Brochure – April 27-30, 2011
Register before April 10, 2011 and receive an additional early bird discount!
This is an accredited medical educational event with Royal College of Family Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and American Medical Association learning credits.
Tobogganing and Sledding Can be Fun and Safe
The speedy, bumpy, sometimes scary slide downhill is one of the outdoor winter activities that youths and adults have always enjoyed. It can be fun, but every year thousands of youths and adults are injured sledding down hills in city parks, streets and resort areas. Most of these injuries are preventable.
Incidence of Injury
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were more than 160,000 sledding, snow tubing, and tobogganing-related injuries treated at hospital emergency rooms, doctors’ offices and clinics in 2007. The total medical, legal and liability, pain and suffering, and work loss-related costs were more than $4 billion.
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Seasons Greetings from the Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia.
Attached is our BIANS Holiday Newsletter with a friendly reminder that it’s time to renew your membership dues.
Holiday Hours: The office close on Wednesday,December 23, 2010 and will re-open Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Voice messages will be checked periodically over this time.
Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia
Room 13-009/010
13th Floor, Victoria Building, VG Site, QEIIPhone: (902) 473-7301
Fax: (902) 473-7302
Mail: PO Box 8804, Halifax, NS B3K 5M4
Website: www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bians1
A Helping Hand to a New Beginning
CBC News
I saw two things while watching a National Football League game last weekend that immediately made me think of Tony Proudfoot.
It was at Ford Field in Detroit, where the Lions were hosting the Green Bay Packers in a game that meant nothing to the home side but everything to the visitors battling for a playoff spot and a chance at the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
First, there was a running back – don’t remember the team – who took the ball on a simple sweep right that found him near the sidelines as the opposing corner came up for the tackle.
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