Health

From traumatic brain injuries to long-term recovery after a crash, our Health coverage explores how personal injuries affect mind and body, the emerging medical research, and what you need to know when healing or seeking compensation. We also cover public-health implications of legal cases and safety issues.

What a Landmark NFL Brain Study Means for San Francisco Brain Injury Victims

New research involving former NFL players offers compelling evidence about the lasting effects of repetitive head trauma and raises important questions for Californians living with traumatic brain injuries.

By Claude Wyle

/ 31 Aug 2026

A doctor is holding a brain MRI scan in an office with a window in the background and laptop open on the desk.

What Kyle Shanahan and Roger Craig Reveal About the Long-Term Effects of Brain Injury

Concussions and other traumatic brain injuries can cause symptoms that persist despite normal brain scans. Research into TBI and dementia risk is also raising new questions about how the effects of a head injury should be documented over a lifetime.

By Claude Wyle

/ 27 Aug 2026

What Kyle Shanahan and Roger Craig Reveal About the Long-Term Effects of Brain Injury

A New Tool for Proving the "Invisible Injury": FDA Clears Objective Brain Function Testing for TBI Cases

Many people with traumatic brain injuries continue to struggle with memory, attention, headaches, and cognitive changes despite having normal CT or MRI scans. Emerging brain function testing may give physicians another objective way to evaluate those symptoms and support brain injury claims.

By Claude Wyle

/ 4 Aug 2026

EEG brain wave testing on a computer screen.

A Teen Was Hit in an Oakland Crosswalk. The Biggest Medical Discovery Came Two Years Later.

A serious injury doesn't always reveal its full impact right away. Attorney Claude Wyle explains how delayed medical findings, additional surgeries, and careful investigation can shape both recovery and a California pedestrian injury claim.

By Claude Wyle

/ 30 Jul 2026

A blurred image of a group of people walking in a crosswalk with sun shining.

Study Shows Similarities of Brain Injuries to Other Chronic Conditions

Have you ever experienced a jolt, blow, or forceful bump to the head? If so, you may be at risk of a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

By Claude Wyle

/ 17 Jul 2023

Study Shows Similarities of Brain Injuries to Other Chronic Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injuries Often Require Lifelong Care

New research from Ohio State University shows that not all traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) stabilize over time, as previously thought.

By Claude Wyle

/ 28 Apr 2023

Traumatic Brain Injuries Often Require Lifelong Care

San Francisco Brain Injury Lawyer Explains Some Concussion Symptoms You May Not Expect

People often focus on concussions in contact sports, but the most common ways people sustain concussions are through car, motorcycle, pedestrian, and bicycle accidents, falls, and workplace incidents.

By Claude Wyle

/ 24 Feb 2023

San Francisco Brain Injury Lawyer Explains Some Concussion Symptoms You May Not Expect

Traumatic Brain Injuries: Potential New Treatment Creates Hope for the Future

A groundbreaking new study by a San Francisco Brain Injury doctor found that the key to treating or preventing the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) could lie in a specific molecule.

By Claude Wyle

/ 24 Jan 2022

Traumatic Brain Injuries: Potential New Treatment Creates Hope for the Future

Brain Injury Research: CT Scans Help Doctors Estimate Future Treatment For Concussions and TBI, and Also Help Brain Injury Lawyers Prove Likelihood of Future Disability From Concussions

A new study conducted by the University of California San Francisco has shown that CT scans for patients with concussions provide valuable information about their risk for long-term issues.

By Claude Wyle

/ 2 Aug 2021

Brain Injury Research: CT Scans Help Doctors Estimate Future Treatment For Concussions and TBI, and Also Help Brain Injury Lawyers Prove Likelihood of Future Disability From Concussions

Blood Tests and Brain Injuries: Faster More Objective Diagnosis is On The Horizon

Motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, and falls are among the many accidents that could result in a brain injury. Unlike with other injuries, such as broken bones, cuts or burns, brain injuries are not easily seen by the naked eye and often need more…

By Claude Wyle

/ 6 Jul 2021

Blood Tests and Brain Injuries: Faster More Objective Diagnosis is On The Horizon

Traumatic Brain Injuries, Even Those Titled “Mild” Also Raise the Risk of Dementia

When you think of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the image that might pop into your head may be of a soldier suffering the effects of an explosion, or maybe of an athlete like a football player who collides with another player at high speed,…

By Claude Wyle

/ 21 Jun 2021

Traumatic Brain Injuries, Even Those Titled “Mild” Also Raise the Risk of Dementia

FDA Warns Manufacturers, Retailers To Stop Selling E-cigarette Products Targeting Youth

E-cigarettes are causing a new generation of kids to become addicted to tobacco. The number of kids using vape pens and flavored types of tobacco products has grown so rapidly that the U.S. Surgeon General and other public health officials have even called it an epidemic.

By Claude Wyle

/ 8 Jun 2020

FDA Warns Manufacturers, Retailers To Stop Selling E-cigarette Products Targeting Youth