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Recent articles on increasing public awareness of what constitutes brain damage, just may be credited to the spotlight shone by the Legacy of Terri. Two years later, the interest still grows and spreads, to the chagrin of the MSM and the leftists, making it more difficult for the death dealers to operate in the shadows.

Headline-grabbing news stories involving severely brain-damaged patients such as Terri Schiavo and Terry Wallis aren't doing much to clear up the public's confusion surrounding brain injury and the likelihood that specific patients will recover, say experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

But more and better research on the issue -- especially a nationwide, epidemiological study on just how and where severely brain-injured patients are being cared for -- could help, according to a commentary written by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell physician-scientists and published recently in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The paper reports on an Institutes of Medicine (IOM) exploratory meeting on disorders of consciousness.

Experts Urge More Research, Awareness Of 'Minimally Conscious State' - Too Little National Data On This Form Of Brain Injury

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State Rep Dennis Baxley, Florida

TALLAHASSEE -- Dennis Baxley starts every morning in his Capitol office reading a red leather-bound Bible and selecting a Proverb for the day.

His selection on Thursday was Proverbs 20:18, "Every purpose is established by counsel, and with good advice make war."

It could serve as a credo for his legislative career. In his seventh year as a House member representing Ocala and Marion County, he has earned a spot as the Legislature's most aggressively conservative member: battling for the life of Terri Schiavo, winning a fight that allows Floridians to use guns if they feel threatened and defending the use of a state song that Gov. Charlie Crist has criticized as racist.

State Rep. Baxley goes his own way

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