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Below you can find links that can be of use to every person at critical moments in their lives. Following an incident, it's important to gather as much information as you can. The Internet is an increasingly important resource in this search, and the sites below are referenced regularly by those facing similiar situations as yourself. If you don't find the answers here, you should contact us. The consultation is free.

Medical Malpractice

Mayo Clinic Health Information System: MayoClinic.com gives users access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 3,000 physicians and scientists from the Mayo Clinic for fast answers about health conditions ranging from common to complex.
Cleveland Clinic Health Information System: This Web site is produced by the Cleveland Clinic Department of Patient Education and Health Information. It is our goal to promote education, inquiry and the well-being of our patients and visitors by providing the most timely, appropriate and useful health information available.
PubMed Central: NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Car / Truck Accidents

Truck Safety Coalition: The Truck Safety Coalition is a partnership between The Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH) Foundation, and Parents Against Tired Truckers (P.A.T.T). The Truck Safety Coalition is dedicated to reducing the number of deaths and injuries caused by truck-related crashes, providing compassionate support to truck crash survivors and families of truck crash victims, and educating the public, policy-makers and media about truck safety issues.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: The FMCSA develops and enforces data-driven regulations that balance motor carrier (truck and bus companies) safety with industry efficiency; harnesses safety information systems to focus on higher risk carriers in enforcing the safety regulations; targets educational messages to carriers, commercial drivers, and the public; and partners with stakeholders including Federal, State, and local enforcement agencies, the motor carrier industry, safety groups, and organized labor on efforts to reduce bus and truck-related crashes. Its website is a wonderful resource for rules, regulations, facts and research relating to large truck and buses safety issues.
NHTSA Crash Avoidance Research Technical Publications: The Research and Development department of the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminsitration engages in extensive research, development, testing, crash investigation, and data collection and analysis activities. This website lists many of its publications.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: The mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is to "save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity." Its website is a wonderful resource for information directed to advancing this mission.
National Transportation Safety Board: The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation -- railroad, highway, marine and pipeline -- and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents.
2006 Statistics for Virginia Motor Vehicle Accidents: In 2006, there were 42,642 fatalities in the United States resulting from motor vehicle accidents. In Virignia, there were 963. This site shows all of the statistics relating to Virginia motor vehicle accidents involving a fatality.
Child Passenger Safety Tips from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0-16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle. This site is a wonderful educational tool for ensuring child passenger safety.
Truck Accident Legal Center: Truck Accident Legal Center provides in-depth information to truck accident victims including immediate steps after a truck accident. We are helping you reassemble your life by aware of your rights and by assisting you in getting the best possible compensation.

Birth Injuries

Well Child Care in the U.S.: Well Child Care in the U.S. (and in international comparison)
Center for Disease Control: Birth injury information by the Center for Disease Control:
Cerebral Palsy Information: An overview of health and legal issues relating to cerebral palsy.
Brachial Plexus Injury Information from National Institute of Health: An overview of health issues relating to brachial plexus injuries

Brain Injuries

Harvard Medical School - Whole Brain Atlas: This site is a collection of MR images of the brain. It shows images of the normal brain and the diseased brain including cerebrovascular disease, neoplastic disease, degenerative disease, and inflammatory/infectious disease. For the lay user, the neuroimaging primer explains some of the different tools used to collect these images. For the more sophisticated, the site provides tours that demonstrate and explain the progression of brain injury and disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, brain tumors, and herpes encephalitis.
Brain Injury Association of America: Founded in 1980, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together with its network of more than 40 chartered state affiliates, as well as hundreds of local chapters and support groups across the country, the BIAA provides information, education and support to assist the 5.3 million Americans currently living with traumatic brain injury and their families.
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation: For each of the last three years, Kessler Institute has been named one of nation's top 2 Rehabilitation Hospitals. It is recognized for its level of care for patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. If you or a someone close to you has suffered a brain injury, this website will hopefully provide you with answers to some of the many questions you are facing.

Spinal Cord Injuries

National Spinal Cord Injury Association: Founded in 1948, the NSCIA is the nation's oldest and largest civilian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Americans living with the results of spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and their families. Its website is an invaluable resource for health, legal and research issues relating to spinal cord injury and disease.
Medical Article: "Repairing the Damaged Spinal Cord": Dr. John W. MacDonald and the Research Consortium of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation write about the significant advances in the understanding of spinal cord injuries and new approaches for the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
Spinal Research: Spinal Research is the United Kingdom’s leading charity funding medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck. Its website provides valuable information concerning the nature of spinal cord injuries, treatment for such injuries and new areas of research that will hopefully lead to even better treatment protocols.
The Miami Project To Cure Paralysis: The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is the world's largest comprehensive spinal cord injury (SCI) research center. It is dedicated to finding more effective treatments and, ultimately, a cure for paralysis.

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Brain Injury Attorney for Georgia Residents

About a million Americans get treatment for a head injury in a hospital emergency room each year. More than a quarter of them are diagnosed with a moderate to severe brain injury, and 70,000 Americans die each year from a head injury, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Medical and indirect expenses from such injuries cost the country more than $48 billion annually. Between 2.5 and 6.5 million Americans have survived a traumatic brain injury.

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