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Clinton Announces Initiative to Improve Detection and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

Joined by Wounded Soldier, Caregivers, Advocates for Military Families, Medical Experts

Washington, DC - Today on Capitol Hill, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) joined with advocates for wounded soldiers and their families to announce a new legislative initiative, co-sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), to improve the detection, assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury and expand support systems for members and former members of the Armed Services with traumatic brain injury and their families. Senator Clinton also announced introduction of legislation to help ensure wounded soldiers receive the disability benefits they need and deserve and to further protect military family financial benefits. Senator Clinton was joined by Sergeant Ted Wade U.S Army 82nd Airborne Division, who incurred a severe traumatic brain injury and his wife Sarah Wade of Chapel Hill, NC; Lee Woodruff, TBI caregiver and co-author with husband Bob Woodruff of New York Times bestseller In An Instant; Dr. Bert Vargas, a resident at New York University School of Medicine who served as an Air Force flight surgeon in Iraq and leadership from the Wounded Warrior Project, the Military Officers Association of America, the National Military Family Association, the Brain Injury Association of America and the American Academy of Neurology.

"If you serve your country your country must serve you. This is the promise our country must keep to the men and women who enlist, who fight and who return home often bearing the visible and invisible scars of sacrifice. We have a duty to reform and ready the military for the increasing number of veterans suffering from complex injuries like traumatic brain injury. Today we are taking steps needed to ensure our men and women in uniform and their families have the care and support they need and deserve," said Senator Clinton.

For the full article please visit www.senate.gov.

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Every 21 seconds, one person in the US sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) costs the country more than $48 billion a year, and between 2.5 and 6.5 million Americans alive today have had a TBI. Survivors of TBI are often left with significant cognitive, behavioral, and communicative disabilities, and some patients develop long-term medical complications, such as epilepsy.

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