NTI Trauma Blog
Study Finds a Reduction in Injury Deaths Could Raise Life Expectancy by 1.5 Years
A study published August 30, 2017 in Population Health Metrics explores why the U.S. lags behind other developed countries in continuing improvements to public health. Despite increasing by more than 30 years over the last century, the average lifespan in the U.S....
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In Exclusive Interview, New CCCRP Director Eyes the Trauma Research Horizon
About a month into his new position as director of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP), Col. Michael Davis is settling into the role. Like his predecessor, Col. Todd Rasmussen, he is looking to advance...
read moreNew Research Shows Promise for Spinal Chord Injury Repair
A study published in the Frontiers of Neurology provides promise for those with spinal chord injuries. Surgeons have learned how to reconnect sensory neurons to the spinal chord after traumatic injury, and this new research from a team at King's College London has...
read moreEllen MacKenzie Earns Distinguished Professorship at JHU
July 20, 2017--Trauma expert Ellen MacKenzie, PhD, was named Johns Hopkins University’s 30th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor this month. Dr. MacKenzie is a past NTI board member and currently co-investigator on an NTI-managed study of pre-hospital death. Leading the...
read moreUK Study Identifies Early Immune System Changes following Trauma
July 19, 2017--A study conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK and published in PLOS Medicine aimed to discover the earliest changes to the immune system following a traumatic injury. Called the "Golden Hour" study, the four-year effort...
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