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Doctors Use Electrical Implant to Aid Brain-Damaged Woman
More than 3 million Americans live with disabling brain injuries. The vast majority of these individuals are lost to the medical system soon after their initial treatment, to be cared for by family or to fend for themselves, managing fatigue, attention and concentration problems with little hope of improvement.
On Saturday, a team of scientists reported a glimmer of hope. Using an implant that stimulates activity in key areas of the brain, they restored near-normal levels of brain function to a middle-aged woman who was severely injured in a car accident 18 years ago.
Experts said the woman was a test case, and that it was far from clear whether the procedure would prompt improvements for others like her. That group includes an estimated 3 million to 5 million people, many of them veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with disabilities related to traumatic brain injuries.
“This is a pilot study,” said Dr. Steven R. Flanagan, the chairman of the department of rehabilitation medicine at NYU Langone Health, who was not part of the research team. “And we certainly cannot generalize from it. But I think it’s a very promising start, and there is certainly more to come in this work.”
The woman, now in her early 40s, was a student when the accident occurred. She soon recovered sufficiently to live independently. But she suffered from persistent fatigue and could not read or concentrate for long, leaving her unable to hold a competitive job, socialize much, or resume her studies.
She and her family asked to remain anonymous, and the researchers did not reveal further details other than to remark on her improvement.
“Her life has changed,” said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine and a member of the study team. “She is much less fatigued, and she’s now reading novels. The next patient might not do as well. But we want keep going to see what happens.”
A lack of research funding and interest has made that difficult, he added. “We’ve not been able to do so because there’s an incredible drag on doing anything for this population,” he said.
Dr. Schiff and another team leader, Dr. Joseph T. Giacino, director of rehabilitation neuropsychology at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, presented the case at a brain-science convention in Washington, D.C., in an informal, public session.
The two collaborated with clinical centers at Stanford and the University of Utah, and with researchers at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Jaimie M. Henderson, a neurosurgeon at Stanford, performed the surgery, and the team is recruiting other candidates in the Bay Area to see if the procedure is viable for other people with mild to moderate traumatic brain injuries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/health/implant-brain-injury.html
'Dr. Schiff' – wonder if related…
Has the Trump Administration de-weaponized the IRS yet?
Remember Murietta? Dumping unvetted migrants into the cities of political foes was done by Obama first
President Trump's trial balloon of sending migrants surging across our border to sanctuary cities has been derided by Democrats as 'cynicism and cruelty' as well as 'a new low' by Trump, but it has a precedent: President Obama.
Back in 2014, when the migrant surge of that year brought tens of thousands of "unaccompanied children" and "moms and kids," into the Rio Grande Valley, overwhelming the Texas processing facilities, President Obama inexplicably targeted small and mid-sized cities (same as the Trump officials' emails) as their next destination of choice. And instead of talking about it, they really did try to bus the unvetted migrants into small cities such as Murietta, California; Yuma, Arizona; and a conservative area of New Mexico, bringing crime, disease, and a high need for social services, without consulting those communities.
The residents protested, and the Obama administration declared them 'racist' in a bid to scare them into line.
I was on the ground at Murietta during those protests when I was an editorial writer at Investor's Business Daily, and I spoke to the citizens of that city, who were not only far from racist, but actually multiracial themselves. They told me this:
Asked why the rebellion was centered in Murrieta and not elsewhere, the residents all had one answer: they were Reagan Country, and it was on their soil that the Reagan revolution was lit in 1978.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/remember_murietta_dumping_unvetted_migrants_into_the_cities_of_political_foes_was_done_by_obama_first.html
Southwest Airlines grounds all 737 Max 8 jets through August
Southwest Airlines has reportedly removed all of its 737 Max 8 jets from flight schedules through the busy summer travel period amid continuing concerns surrounding the safety of the aircraft.
CNBC reported Saturday that all of Southwest's 737 Max 8 airliners had been removed from flight schedules through August 5, and it was reportedly unclear how many flights would be affected or cancelled as a result of the decision.
A request for comment to Southwest Airlines was not immediately returned Saturday morning. The company's president, Tom Nealon, released a statement Saturday to CNBC stating that a "limited number of customers" were being affected by the continued grounding of the Max 8 jets, which occurred after the model was involved in two fatal crashes in six months.
“The limited number of customers, who have already booked their travel and will be affected by this amended schedule, are being proactively notified so that we can reaccommodate their flight plans well in advance of their travel date,” Nealon said, according to CNBC.
Pilots union president Jon Weaks wrote in a memo this week reported by the Seattle Times that Boeing's influence in the aerospace industry was enormous and that his union members have discussed “the advantages and disadvantages of an airline having a single fleet and having aircraft from only one manufacturer.”
Southwest Airlines holds a fleet of nearly three dozen 737 max 8 jets in addition to its other aircraft, which includes 750 Boeing 737 models in total according to CNBC. The fleet is the largest collection of Max 8 jets in the U.S., while several Chinese airlines also operate large fleets of Max 8 jets.
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/438759-southwest-airlines-grounds-all-737-max-8-jets-through-august
US-based evangelical group says 3 volunteers detained in Laos
Several members of a U.S.-based evangelical Christian organization were detained and had their passports confiscated in Laos, the group said Friday.
Vision Beyond Borders said three volunteers were visiting remote villages in the northern part of the country for religious missionary work on Monday when they were detained by police and had their passports confiscated.
The Wyoming-based group said in a statement on Friday that the three were taken into custody by police when visiting villages in the Louang Namtha province.
Radio Free Asia reported Friday citing an unnamed police official that the three had been arrested, but the official denied they were being detained, saying only that their passports had been confiscated.
“It appears that the interrogations have been going slowly. [Police] brought them into a room and said they would be back in 10 minutes, then they were gone for 4-5 hours,” Vision Beyond Borders operations manager Eric Blievernicht told RFA.
The outlet cited a statement from an unnamed State Department official saying, "We can confirm the temporary detention and subsequent release of three U.S. citizens in Luang Namtha, Laos. We take seriously our responsibility to assist U.S. citizens abroad and are providing all appropriate consular services."
A local Christian group told the news agency that it was working on efforts to meet with the Americans.
“We just found out about this and we’re traveling to Luang Namtha province to help these three Americans,” a leader of a local church who remained anonymous told RFA.
Laos, which is run by a communist government that recognizes Buddhism as the state religion, generally considers Christianity to be a foreign religion. As a result, conflict occasionally erupts between the government and missionary groups.
A 2017 report from the State Department cited by RFA found that more than two dozen Hmong Christians had been expelled from their native villages by the government in that year.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/438752-us-based-evangelical-group-says-3-volunteers-detained-in-laos
Not to slide, but EMDR works.
Find someone you trust to work with.
No drugs.
No long term Psycho The Rapist.
Now, back our our regularly scheduled program…
BHO looking haggard