Archive for July, 2009
US changes stem cell rules
The Obama administration has changed the presidential rules that controlled the usage of stem cells. In the previous Bush administration scientists in the US could only perform scientific studies on existing stem cells and were not able to create new stem cell lines. During the Bush years scientists complained that they were falling behind European [...]
Obama census makes disabled disappear
The Obama administration has removed all questions asked by census takers about the disabled for the next census. For many years a congressional group was put in charge of the census and the asked numerous questions about the number of disabled people in the household. The administration has moved all census activities directly under the [...]
SCRN is on Slashdot.org!
Yesterday our story on Tylenol based drugs possible removal from store shelves made it on Slashdot, one of the premier news websites on the Internet. At the time of this writeup there are over 600 comments to the story. We are pointing to the comments so you can get a chance to see what other [...]
Brain controlled wheelchair displayed
Toyota displayed a brain controlled wheelchair in Japan. The car company has been working on man kinds of control systems for their cars and this came out of a research group within the car company. The heart of the system is a computer that runs a special program called a neural network. Neural nets have [...]
FDA may ban key pain killers
The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone, Tylenol with codeine, Percocet, Endocet, Darvocet may be permanently banned from the US market, even if the patient has a prescription fro a doctor.The problem is the key ingredient [...]
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