Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Completely 'locked-in' patients can communicate

BBC News - Health
Patients with no control over their body answer questions as a computer interprets brain signals.
New research could mean locked-in patients can now communicate.
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U.S. President Donald Trump steps back as Neil Gorsuch (L) approaches the podium after being nominated to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the White House in WashingtonBy Lawrence Hurley and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the court's conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights. The Colorado native faces a potentially contentious confirmation battle in the U.S. Senate after Republicans last year refused to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy caused by the February 2016 death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia. Announcing the selection at the White House flanked by the judge and his wife, Trump said Gorsuch's resume is "as good as it gets." Trump said he hopes Republicans and Democrats can come together on this nomination for the good of the country.


(Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday: SUPREME COURT Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the court's conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights. TRAVEL BAN AND IMMIGRATION Nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily blocked from entering the United States by Trump's executive order may be blocked indefinitely, and others might be added to the list, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says.

Cinder Sonis, right, an advocate with Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, helped a customer enroll in an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 in Honolulu. Faced with uncertainty about the federal health care law, Hawaii lawmakers are introducing bills to bring what they believe are the best parts of the Affordable Care Act into state law. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)HONOLULU (AP) — In a modest church building in urban Honolulu, mother Mona Aliksa waited to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law.


A Colombian anti-narcotics policeman guard a cocaine lab, which, according to the police, belongs to criminal gangs in rural area of Calamar in Guaviare state, ColombiaBy Luis Jaime Acosta and Brad Haynes BOGOTA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Defense ministers from Brazil and Colombia agreed to step up their fight against drug traffickers at a meeting on Tuesday in the Brazilian city of Manaus, where feuding drug gangs set off a recent string of deadly prison riots. Demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as part of a deal ending more than 50 years of war has raised concerns that heavily armed former combatants could join with increasingly powerful drug gangs in Brazil.


Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee confirmation hearingBy Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, already known as one of the most controversial nominees for education secretary in U.S. history, now risks a rare congressional rejection. The deeply divided U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday agreed to send her nomination to the full chamber for a vote, the final step in the confirmation process. Two Republicans - Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski - expressed grave misgivings about the charter school advocate's limited experience with public schools.


(Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday:
By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - By the time they turned 10 years old, black children born in the U.S. in the 1980s were three times more likely than white children to have lost their mothers and twice as likely to have lost their fathers, a new study shows. Lead researcher Debra Umberson imagines the grieving children and the far-reaching repercussions of their losses when looking at her study’s broader findings: compared to white individuals, black people born between 1900 and 1984 had to cope far more often with the deaths of their parents, siblings and even their children, earlier and throughout their lives. The findings point to the “the spiraling damage” of racial disparities, the authors write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By Rob Goodier (Reuters Health) - White parents may be more likely than African American or Hispanic parents to allow their children to participate in a medical trial, a recent U.S. study suggests. The difference appears to stem in part from “family circumstances,” such as an inability to get time off from work to be with the child at the hospital, that more often affect non-white parents, according to findings presented January 22 at the Society of Critical Care’s annual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. “Disparities in research participation may compromise the generalizability and validity of study findings,” lead author Dr. Joanne Natale, a pediatrics professor at the University of California, Davis told Reuters Health by email.
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