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Dionte Berry News Editor dberry11@murraystate.edu The Board of Regents convened in Heritage Hall for its quarterly spring meeting on Friday, June 4. The topic of tuition for the 21-22 academic year continued from the Board’s April meeting. In addition they discussed and voted on a handful of other matters such…
Aldara Henderson, of Tampa Bay, Florida, began her graduate education at SIUE after going into partial remission.Â
âAbout five years ago I went to the hospital with pain, and it turned out I had stage four cancer and they gave me four months to live,â Aldara said. âWith what I experienced and the connections Iâve made with other cancer patients and with COVID-19 and everything going on, it is so important to reach out and help [cancer patients].â
Dr. Hauibo Xin, associate professor and chair of the Department of Applied Health, served as Aldaraâs mentor and chair of her thesis committee. Xin said given the lack of guidelines for cancer patients during the pandemic, Aldaraâs research was all the more valuable.Â
More than 23 million U.S. adults age 40 or older have a history of head injuries in which they lost consciousness. Falls are the most common cause. U.S. deaths from fall-related traumatic brain injury increased by 17% from 2008 to 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fall-related death rates were highest in those age 75 and up.
The long-term effects of traumatic brain injury are well documented. They include an increased risk for neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson s disease and epilepsy. A recent Penn Medicine study found a single head injury can increase the risk of developing dementia as much as 25 years later.