Did anyone see the article about our servicemen wounded in Iraq on the front page of last Friday's USA Today? Can someone post it please? I was sitting in an airport waiting room and I could swear it said that equipment spared death, but many were brain damaged. Did I see this correctly?
An explosion can cause the brain to move violently inside the skull. The shock wave from the blast can also damage brain tissue, Lux says. "The good news is that those people would have been dead" in earlier wars, says Deborah Warden, national director of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. "But now they're alive. And we need to help them."