Arizona: Mayo Clinic Wants To Save Your Child's Life
Want easy karma points? The Mayo Clinic is offering a free baseline concussion test exam for Arizona high school student-athletes so they can be tested again after a possible brain injury (along with a full medical examination by a health care specialist) to find out the severity of their injury. Information about the program can be found here: http://www.mayoclinic.org/concussion ...
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