TV show helps US curler pay for parents' Oly trip
INO News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:54 AM PST
U.S. curler Chris Plys will be treating his parents to a trip to the Vancouver Olympics, thanks to some cash he earned on a new reality show. Plys received $6,500 to fund his parents' trip to Canada from Duluth, Minn. His father, Patrick, has recently overcome brain cancer. |
Device turns thoughts into speech
MSNBC Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:50 AM PST
Scientists embed an electrode directly into a patient's brain and then develop a computer system to read his thoughts. |
District helps send a million cards to boy
Dayton Daily News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:35 AM PST
VANDALIA â€" During the week before winter break, students from across the Vandalia-Butler City Schools district helped make Christmas special for a boy they don’t know.Seven-year-old Nathan Elfrink, of West Jefferson, Ohio, has terminal brain cancer. According to news reports, his parents learned that this would be the last Christmas for their son, who is now in hospice care. |
A resolution? Well, maybe.
Northumberland Today Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:29 AM PST
Ireceived the diagnosis just this week. At last it has a name. Which is interesting because my affliction, TBI (Technical Brain Impairment), which has been with me since childhood, isn't mentioned in the Merck Manual of medical information.[...] |
Where Are Our Jetpacks?
GenomeWeb News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:20 AM PST
A the end of the year or decade, most lists are of the best or greatest achievements of that time frame, but Scientific American takes a different tack by listing the " Ten Science Letdowns of the New Millennium ." Among those 10 include: a lack of victory in the war on cancer, the brain remaining mostly mysterious, and including evolution in science classrooms still being a topic of debate. |
NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study
Park Hills Daily Journal Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:31 AM PST
The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league’s stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned Sunday. |
Community Notepad
Pacifica Tribune Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:12 AM PST
Book-signing at Linda Mar Starbucks â€" Skyline College Biology Professor Shari Bookstaff has written a book about getting her life back following the removal of a benign brain tumor. She is holding a book signing for "When Life Throws You Lemons... Make Cranberry Juice!" |
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