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Brain Injury Association of Missouri Scholarship Fund
A scholarship fund was established recently by the Brain Injury
Association of Missouri to assist individuals who have sustained a
brain injury with post-secondary education or training costs.
Two scholarships of $500 are available. One scholarship will be
awarded to a student who has recently graduated or is about to
graduate from high school.
The scholarship may be used for courses at a community college,
university or vocational/technical training program. Funds will be
paid directly to the recipient's school.
To qualify for a Brain Injury Association of Missouri scholarship,
the applicant must:
Be a resident of Missouri.
Complete an application.
Submit a 500 to 1,000 word personal essay.
Provide two reference letters.
Provide proof of acceptance into the school/training program.
Initial scholarships will be for classes/courses beginning in January
2005. Applicants must submit their requests to the Brain Injury
Association of Missouri by Oct. 1, 2004. Applications for the fall
2005 academic year must be submitted by April 30, 2005.
Applications are available at the Brain Injury Association of
Missouri office, 10270 Page Ave., #100, St. Louis, MO 63132 or via
the organization's Web site at www.biamo.org. Call (314) 426-4124 for
more information.
The Izzo-Inge Family Endowment for Students with Disabilities
The purpose of this endowed student scholarship is to provide
financial assistance to full-time, undergraduate degree-seeking
students at NIU who are incoming juniors or seniors in any academic
discipline. Reference, however, is given to candidates who
demonstrate a desire to teach in the field of special education.
Candidates must have a demonstrated learning disability, including
traumatic brain injury, attention deficit disorder or attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder. Also included is significant
deafness, significant visual impairment or other disabilities
affecting the cognitive process. Student scholarship awards from this
endowment can be for an amount up to full tuition, including required
textbooks and fees
** reference: www.neuroskills.com


TBI LATEST NEWS:
2/23/07
Doubts over studies raise serious implications for patients
Doubts over three influential head injury studies mean that patients
are receiving treatment that may be unsound, warn doctors in this
week's BMJ.
Professor Ian Roberts and colleagues describe the worrying story of
Dr Julio Cruz, a neurosurgeon who published three trials on the use
of the drug mannitol for head injuries between 2001 and 2004.
The results showed that high dose mannitol greatly reduced death and
disability six months after the head injury, but they have recently
been called into question.
Dr Cruz committed suicide two years ago and his co-authors and the
editors of the journals in which the three papers were published have
failed to respond adequately to the concerns raised about the
integrity of the data.
Despite considerable efforts, Professor Roberts and his colleagues
say they are "left with serious doubt about important studies but
with no way of determining with confidence whether the results are
fabricated or real."
The implications for patients are serious," they add. "They are being
treated on the basis of potentially unreliable evidence." They
believe that a strong case exists for an international body to
respond to the problem of research misconduct.
These events have several important consequences, warn Charles Young
and Fiona Godlee in an accompanying editorial. For instance, if some
or all of Cruz's data are false, then doctors will be providing their
critically ill patients with uncertain and possibly harmful treatment.
The failure to retract unsound data also has long term consequences
as the data become integrated into subsequent reviews and guidelines,
they add.
Young and Godlee believe that editors should react promptly to alert
readers in situations where inaccuracies or misleading statements may
have been published. In the case of Cruz's data, they also call on
the editors and co-authors involved in the disputed papers to act
quickly either to confirm the veracity of what they have published or
to withdraw it, and they urge clinicians treating patients with head
injuries to approach these data with caution.
** resource: http://www.eurekalert.org


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