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- New surgery technique gives hope for facial paralysis
- WASHINGTON AFP — A new surgical technique combined with physical therapy can help restore movement in patients who have suffered facial paralysis, US research suggested on Tuesday. A technique known as temporalis tendon transfer showed good results in seven patients who opted for the surgical-therapeutic technique, according to the...
- Research articles 2007-07-17
- DAVOS: Princeton Historian - When Globalisers Lost Their Nerve - The Current Malaise Of Globalisation Relates To A Growing Sense Of Internal Paralysis In The Major Industrial Countries And The Sense That Power Politics Have Returned, Says Harold James.
- Byline: HAROLD JAMES In the 1990s, globalisation was a red rag for intellectually disaffected bulls, but no-one else was too excited. Today, the big ideological debates about globalisation are over. The massive demonstrations that disrupted the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Medicine: Thought Control
- Muscular paralysis may soon be a lot less debilitating. John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University, and colleagues have developed an implantable device that may one day allow patients to control prosthetic limbs with their thoughts. The device has 100 electrodes that are implanted into the motor cortex--the part of...
- Research articles 2006-12-25
- Findings from First Participant in Cyberkinetics' BrainGate Study Published in Nature; Discoveries Support Feasibility of Brain-Controlled Prosthetic and Assistive Devices for Paralyzed Patients
- FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN; "Cyberkinetics") today reported that scientific findings from the first participant in the Company's ongoing pilot clinical trials of the BrainGate Neural Interface System BrainGate are featured on the July 13, 2006, cover of the journal Nature. This research, which has unlocked...
- Research articles 2006-07-12
- Analysis Paralysis? How "Quant"
- The cure for analysis paralysis, says Andrew Hines, is OR, or operations research, a set of deep data mining and analytics techniques. OR has helped mighty Proctor & Gamble --- a company so huge it all but boasts its own weather system --- to continue to win in just about...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Thought-Controlled Prosthetics.(IN THE NEWS)
- Cyberkinetics' BrainGate, a system in development to provide thought-controllable computer operating for people with severe paralysis, was featured on NBC's Today Show on December 1. The segment featured Matthew Nagle, the first participant in Cyberkinetics' ongoing clinical trial, who commanded the prosthetic hand on a...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Close gap between political words, deeds, Gorbachev tells forum
- MADRID AFP — Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said statesmen had a duty to breach a growing gulf between their words and deeds which heightened misunderstandings between nations. "We must overcome the breach which exists between words and deeds," Gorbachev told a meeting of the World Political Forum which...
- Research articles 2005-12-10
- John P. Donoghue Honored with Neurotech Business Report's ''Gold Electrode Award'' for Cyberkinetics' Groundbreaking BrainGate™ Brain-Computer Interface; Cyberkinetics' Founder Recognized as Neurotechnology Pioneer
- FOXBOROUGH, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO -- Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN) Cyberkinetics and Neurotech Business Report today announced that John P. Donoghue, Ph.D., Cyberkinetics' Chief Scientific Officer and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University, was one of five individuals and organizations within the neurotechnology...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- John P. Donoghue Honored for Cyberkinetics' Groundbreaking BrainGate™ Brain-Computer Interface at the 'Popular Mechanics 2005 Breakthrough Awards'
- FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cyberkinetics' Founder Selected Based On Potential of Innovative BrainGateTM System to Improve Lives of Motor-Impaired People Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN) Cyberkinetics announced today that John P. Donoghue, Ph.D., the Company's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at Brown...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- Factfile on polio as end nears to eradication bid
- WASHINGTON AFP — Factfile on polio, as a worldwide campaign battles to eliminate the disease by the end of 2005. Disease: Poliomyelitis polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus which attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis within hours. Symptoms: Fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness...
- Research articles 2005-05-13
- Paralyzed or pulverized? The fall of the Republican Guard
- Television viewers around the world witnessed the symbolic end of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9, 2003, as U.S. Marines helped Iraqi citizens destroy a statue of the dictator in Baghdad. Coming 3 weeks after the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the scene seemed to vindicate the "fast and final"...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Seeing is believing - except with ABC's show on UFOs.(News)
- Byline: Burt Constable The most telling part of ABC news anchor Peter Jennings' report "UFOs - Seeing Is Believing" were the amateurish TV commercials that apparently made the journey from the world of UHF. The spots featured products generally not seen during...
- Research articles 2005-02-26
- Purdue Licenses Paralysis Prevention Technology to Medtronic Sofamor Danek
- WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Purdue Research Foundation has partnered with Memphis, Tenn.-based Medtronic Sofamor Danek to commercialize technology discovered at Purdue University that may someday prevent paralysis in humans with spinal cord injuries. A license agreement between the foundation's Office of Technology Commercialization and Medtronic Sofamor Danek, the...
- Research articles 2004-12-28
- Infantile paralysis threatens southwest China after ten-year absence
- BEIJING AFP — Infantile paralysis is threatening to spread into southwest China, 10 years after the disease disappeared from the country. Cases have been found this year in countries bordering Yunnan province in southwest China, Xu Ruiyun, an immunity expert with the Kunming Center for Disease Control in Yunnan,...
- Research articles 2004-12-15
- Unknown cattle disease detected in Britain
- LONDON AFP ? British scientists have detected a previously unknown brain condition which caused paralysis and death in a young cow, officials said in a potential new blow to an industry badly hit by mad cow disease. An investigation had been launched after a white material was found on...
- Research articles 2004-06-08
- CCE criticizes paralysis on pending reforms.
- MEXICO CITY, Apr 30, 2004 (El Universal/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- In light of the sparse progress in Congress with the structural reforms, the private sector is seeking to persuade the legislative body to call an extraordinary period of sessions to help...
- Research articles 2004-04-30
- UN envoy says Palestinian Authority in "near paralysis"
- UNITED NATIONS AFP ? The UN's Middle East envoy warned that the credibility of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority was dwindling and that its state of "near paralysis" was a threat to the faltering peace process. Just days after a new poll showed the radical militant group Hamas had more...
- Research articles 2004-04-23
- Kefu withdraws from Super 12 opener due to illness
- BRISBANE, Australia, Feb 20 AFP ? Wallaby international Steve Kefu withdrew from Queensland's Super 12 rugby opener against the Otago Highlanders with a medical condition which has forced him to take a banned substance. The Queensland Reds medical staff have treated Kefu with prednisone in the past 24 hours...
- Research articles 2004-02-20
- Mum says crash may help Bedingfield's songwriting
- WHANGAREI, New Zealand AFP ? New Zealand-born British pop star Daniel Bedingfield, lucky to escape brain injury or paralysis after surviving a serious road crash, may find some good comes from the accident, his mother said. Bedingfield, 24, is in hospital here with fractures to the second and third...
- Research articles 2004-01-05
- Advances in multiple sclerosis research to be presented at meeting hosted by Yale and veterans.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 April 2003-YALE UNIVERSITY: Advances in multiple sclerosis research to be presented at meeting hosted by Yale and veteransC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04012003 New Haven, Conn. -- Research aimed at finding new drug therapies for the paralysis, loss of vision,...
- Research articles 2003-04-02
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