Results tagged “brain”

As previously mentioned, sad news of actress Natasha Richardson being injured during a skiing accident yesterday was reported this morning. Richardson, wife of Liam Neeson, was at a Montreal-area resort taking a beginner's lesson when she fell. While she didn't have a helmet on, the NY Times has word from a spokeswoman at the resort who said “She didn’t show any signs of injury, she was talking and she seemed all right.” But now the 45-year-old Tony-award winner is reportedly in critical condition with a brain injury. The latest word is that she is "sedated and suffering from brain swelling -- but is not brain dead." And TMZ has just reported that she was boarded onto a private jet with a medic team to be taken to a new hospital that they believe is in New York City.

A Long Island woman has filed a $4 million lawsuit against the Mount Sinai Medical Center, its Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and the Suffolk County medical examiner's office for removing her husband's brain after his death two years ago. Mozelle Purifoy of Central Islip says that neither she nor her husband Tom had ever agreed for his organs to be donated before his suicide in 2006. Yet on the day of his funeral she learned that he was being buried minus one key part. Even though she claims that the chief Suffolk medical examiner met with her last year and told her that it should have been returned, she still doesn't know where the brain is. "It's ghoulish. It's bizarre. It's just one trauma after the next," Purifoy said.