If your browser does not support tables, use this site's text-only version. The BISG's Bob Brown receives the BIA's new top-prestige award. This category includes injuries from a stroke, brain aneurysm, brain tumor, etc. A traumatic head injury may be either a closed head injury , with no penetrating wound, or an open head injury . This is true even for a so-called mild brain injury.
Brain injuries are the leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults.
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