Archive for June 17th, 2009

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Congress working on new long term disability bill

Posted by ghgeorge
June 17, 2009

Congress is working on a new bill to give long term care to everyone that works. The bill allows those that have been injured to have nurses come into the home. As it stands now, critically injured people are sent home from the hospital with no medical care coverage. For the next 18 months the [...]

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Computer-brain interface to give limb movement back

Posted by ghgeorge
June 17, 2009

Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital are in a pilot program to attach a computer to the brain of a patient with spinal cord injuries. The computer can interpret signals from the brain and then move either a mechanical arm and hand, or move the arm and hand of the individual. This is still very [...]