David Gambacorta

1 week ago | centredaily.com | David Gambacorta

May 26-For 34 years, Christine Emery followed a careful ritual in small, dark rooms inside Philadelphia-area hospitals, studying MRIs and CT scans of patients' brains. A neuroradiologist, Emery traced with her eyes the contours of each brain. She started with the stem, which controls a person's breathing, then moved up to the cerebellum, one hemisphere after another, meticulously searching for masses, bleeding, or other hints of trouble.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | David Gambacorta

For 34 years, Christine Emery followed a careful ritual in small, dark rooms inside Philadelphia-area hospitals, studying MRIs and CT scans of patients’ brains. A neuroradiologist, Emery traced with her eyes the contours of each brain. She started with the stem, which controls a person’s breathing, then moved up to the cerebellum, one hemisphere after another, meticulously searching for masses, bleeding, or other hints of trouble.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | David Gambacorta

The body of a 38-year-old Pennsylvania park ranger who disappeared Friday, when his kayak capsized in the Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County, was recovered Sunday. Cindy Adams Dunn, the secretary of the state’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, identified the ranger as Alec Campbell. Dunn, in a news release, wrote that the agency was “deeply saddened” by Campbell’s death.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | David Gambacorta

At the heart of the NFL’s billion-dollar concussion settlement program lies a basic formula: If a retired player is found to have developed certain neurocognitive illnesses after absorbing countless brain-rattling collisions playing football, he‘s entitled to compensation. The path to actually receiving a payment, though, is one that many ex-players have sometimes struggled to navigate due to an array of disheartening denials and delays.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | David Gambacorta

May 23—At the heart of the NFL's billion-dollar concussion settlement program lies a basic formula: If a retired player is found to have developed certain neurocognitive illnesses after absorbing countless brain-rattling collisions playing football, he's entitled to compensation. The path to actually receiving a payment, though, is one that many ex-players have sometimes struggled to navigate due to an array of disheartening denials and delays.