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Science / Technology

Jul 4, 2008

Increased Calories Necessary for Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury

Starve a fever, feed a traumatic brain injury. Recent studies by clinician-scientists from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center found that patients with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, have a higher survival rate when their caloric intake is increased.

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