by Sylvia Hall | Apr 11, 2011 | Science + Technology
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ traumatic brain injury, treatment and subsequent therapy have opened the debate over access to high-quality care following a brain injury. Anne Forrest is one of the hundreds of thousands of people who are recovering from a...
by Kyle Jahner | Apr 7, 2011 | Science + Technology
Kenny Stoltz/FLICKR WASHINGTON — Three months ago in Arizona, a gunman’s bullet struck Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head, passing through her brain just over her left eye. She has since been making what’s been described as a...
by Matt Mansfield | Dec 8, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Startling statistics recently released by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050. What is already a serious condition, affecting 1 in 10 Americans, could become an epidemic over the...
by Kelly C. Doherty | Dec 7, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Imaging software designed for NASA could soon help medical professionals to better interpret images such as mammograms, X-rays, and MRI’s through its ability to process images on an incredibly detailed scale. The software is based an algorithm...
by Lauren Timm | Dec 7, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s new health care law promises to bring affordable coverage to the 32 million people in the United States without health insurance. But a Planned Parenthood-backed campaign is hoping to funnel some of that funding toward a...
by Zak Koeske | Dec 3, 2010 | Business & Tech, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – With cities facing painful budget cuts, already-strapped government technology teams risk falling even further behind their private sector peers. But if one pioneering technology non-profit has its way, government IT needn’t be relegated to a civic...
