Cerebral

Syracuse, NY - The Syracuse Common Council Monday approved the city's largest legal settlement in history - $3 million, which will go to a woman who was hit by a city pickup truck while she was nine-months pregnant last year. Tatalisha Mack was walking to the grocery store on a Saturday morning in August when a public works employee struck her, dragging Mack 30 feet at Erie Boulevard East and Westmoreland Avenue.

Apparently taking off the final month or so on last year's PGA golf tour revitalized former Cooper High and University of Texas golfer Bob Estes, who has played in four tournaments and picked up four checks totaling $126,397. The big one came last week at Pebble Beach. where he finished tied for 16th worth $93,000 after firing a 4-under par 68.

The major risk factors for the disease include atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries" elsewhere in the body, a history of smoking, diabetes, hypertension, elevated cholesterol levels, poor nutrition, obesity, and lack of exercise. The carotid arteries are paired arteries in the neck that serve as the major blood supply to the brain.

Austin's Kristen Messer is going for her sixth consecutive victory in the 3M Half Marathon female wheelchair division. News 8's Jeff Power has the story. One local athlete is taking her speed to new levels. "I was born in Dallas, Texas and we moved to Austin when I was two years old, so basically I am an Austinite." Kristen Messer is racing in the wheelchair division of the 3M Half Marathon this Sunday.

Aiden. Trais says that O'Neill is unfit to have custody of the boy because she is a quadriplegic, having lost all use of her legs and some use of her arms in a fall off a balcony a decade ago. Shortly after Aiden was born this summer, The Chicago Tribune carried a long and detailed article about the support system that surrounded O'Neill - she lives with her mother, has a full-time aide and a trained service dog - as well as the preparations she'd made to welcome the child.

(in Carpentersville). I've never had a problem with anything," said Taillon, who has lived in the village since she was 5. That was before the Carpentersville Village Board passed a controversial ordinance banning large vehicles from parking on neighborhood streets and driveways late last year.

THE street stretching in front of the President's Home, on the campus of the University of the Ozarks, serves as a bus stop for local school students. Pickup days gather a crowd of different aged and diversified youngsters. The other morning a police car was parked beside the bus. A benign interloper, I watched intently as two unsmiling officers spoke to attentive, fear-frozen little faces inside the bus.

A girl who lives in the heart of Sooner country but pulls for the Oregon Ducks got the trip of a lifetime to see her favorite team play. Angel Wilson's parents said their daughter was born with cerebral palsy and brain damage that left her unable to talk or walk. Billy Wilson said his daughter's eyes light up whenever she watches the University of Oregon's football team on television.

BHOPAL, India Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen. The gas that swept through her poor neighborhood left her nearly blind in one eye, menopausal at 36, with searing headaches and breathlessness.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. He is in his fourth year as a dual specialty trainee. Olivia Fiertag is a specialist trainee with West London Mental Health NHS Trust. James Warner is a consultant psychiatrist with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Correspondence: Correspondence Dr Susham Gupta, Nightingale House, St Charles Hospital, Exmoor Street, London W10 6DZ, UK.

Sesostris Shrine Center and Blue Valley Shrine Club are hosting an evaluation clinic on Oct. 9 in Beatrice. The John Rhodes Evaluation Clinic will be 1-4 p.m. at Parkview Conference Center, Eighth and Tait Avenue. The evaluation is for children with bone, muscle or joint problems. What the hospital treats: Hand, foot, and limb deficiencies/deformities, limb length differences, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, hip problems, juvenile arthritis; spina bifida, neurological disorders, osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and sports injuries.

Harmon Unger, the deputy CEO for safety and security for the NYC Department of Education, informs a man and schoolchild outside P.S. 16 in the Queens borough of New York City that their school is closed on May 15, 2009 As the nation's 55 million children prepare for a new school year, the foremost question on many parents' and school administrators' minds is, How will we protect our students from swine flu?

It was a powerhouse gathering of top officials of Samsung and the Ponce family who held the blessing and grand opening of the very first Samsung Concept Shop in Western Visayas, at SM City and at Po's Digital at Araneta Street, Bacolod City, recently. No less than Samsung president and their top managers jetted in from Manila for the occasion.

His aim is to raise awareness of the prevalence of the condition and, ultimately, foster health reform. His life changed forever on Jan. 2, 1988, when a simple act of floating in the surf in Martinique took a horrible turn. The undertow flipped the then-20-year-old over, smashing his head into the hard sand and leaving him paralyzed.

United Cerebral Palsy Delrey School's speaker series to address special needs topics begins May 27 with a lecture on cortical visual impairment, the leading cause of visual impairment in young children. Sandra Newcomb, a technical assistance specialist for the University of Maryland's Department of Special Education, will discuss the condition, which prevents the brain from consistently understanding and interpreting what the eye sees and suggest modifications for the home and classroom to help children with it.

By Janet Sassi Charles Camosy, Ph.D., is not always politically correct. In fact, Camosy, assistant professor of theology, is outspoken about hot-button sociopolitical issues: Government embryonic stem cell funding? He is against it. Pulling Terry Schiavo's feeding tube? He saw cause for it.

A Cheddar Valley family has spoken out about the hardships involved in diagnosing Asperger's syndrome after reading about a Wedmore family's own experiences. After reading in the Gazette about how Wedmore resident Steve Leftley had his condition misdiagnosed for 20 years, reader Caroline Ainscough, who lives near Compton Bishop, said her daughter Jessica had experienced similar problems.

For her 13th birthday, Mary Gwen Baker did what millions of other kids did over the weekend: She went to the movies to watch Miley Cyrus sing and dance as Hannah Montana. The lights were turned up. The volume turned down. And no one complained if audience members walked around, shouted or made repeated bathroom runs.

Jacob's mom, Lori Norton, praises the work of the clinicians at Northwest Rehabilitation Associates of South Salem. "He's competing again," Lori Norton said of the track and football athlete, a junior at West Salem High. "He's doing great," Brandt said. NWRA now has space to expand its business of healing.

Neuro-surgery Manipal Conducts Surgery to Treat Moyamoya In Moyamoya, two major arteries which supply blood to the majority of the brain get progressively narrowed and blocked Manipal Hospital, Bangalore has recently conducted brain bypass surgery called Superficial Temporal artery-Middle Cerebral artery bypass (STMC bypass) to treat a patient suffering from Moyamoya disease.