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.
Krukow, 62, is suffering from the degenerative muscle disease inclusion-body myositis. He was diagnosed eight years ago, but kept it private until revealing the news to the San Francisco Chronicle. Inclusion-body myositis (IBM) causes progressive weakness in muscles in the wrist, fingers, thigh and foot.