For more information on the US trauma system, trauma facilities in your area, and traumatic injuries please refer to the following websites. 1  American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 2  Florida Department of Health Trauma Program.
With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.
Myotubular myopathy, also known as centronuclear myopathy, is a slowly progressive disease that causes drooping of the eyelids, foot drop, facial weakness, and other muscle weakness. Nemaline myopathy, also known as Rod body disease, develops from birth to adulthood and is nonprogressive and usually not fatal.n some cases, myopathies can be caused by a malfunctioning gland (or glands), which produces either too much or too little of the chemical messengers called hormones. Hormones are carried by the blood and one of their many functions is to regulate muscle activity.