http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2012/05/military-shaheen-military-abortion-funding-052412w/ Senate panel backs military abortion funding By Cid Standifer - Staff writer Posted : Thursday May 24, 2012 19:01:07 EDT A provision that would remove some restrictions on abortion funding in military medical facilities was approved Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.The amendment to the committee’s version of the 2013 defense authorization bill, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., would allow the military to fund abortions in cases of rape and incest, much like the Hyde provision that covers spending on abortions for most other branches of the federal government.Shaheen’s amendment would not allow abortion care for any cases except those involving rape or incest or where the life of the mother is at risk. Supporters argue that it would simply provide parity ... Continue reading →
Body This kind of blew my daughter’s mind: a US$0.99 iPhone app that simulates a FaceTime call from her favorite Sesame Street monster, Elmo. I offer it here because what I generally hear about FaceTime is that no one uses it. But what I see is that it’s one of the most successful bits of technology that the rest of my family have taken to; in our house, FaceTime calls are a regular feature of almost every weekend. Thuy’s grandparents, aunts and cousins all relish the ability to talk with her via FaceTime. It seems unlikely we’re alone in this, which is borne out in the fact that this app mimics the FaceTime look and feel, and not Skype or Google Hangouts. It’s a useful ... Continue reading →
The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine. But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free. The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. "It's sort of like a laser beam," project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots. But because the jet is so thin — he compares it to a mosquito's proboscis — it's unlikely to produce much pain. Details of the prototype are published in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics. Needles, as we all know, can be quite painful, and it's estimated that at least 10 percent of the ... Continue reading →
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Audience members glanced around in confusion — Bavarian what? Holy Roman Empire? — as Trebek repeated the question. The 12-second time limit ticked down. Rahul Nagvekar, 14, of Texas and Vansh Jain, 13, of Wisconsin huddled over their monitors and scribbled their answers. At stake: a $25,000 college scholarship and a trip to the Galapagos Islands.“Been there, done that — a fabulous vacation,” Trebek quipped.Finally, their answers were locked in. Jain wrote Passau. Nagvekar went with Regensburg. He was right.“It was a complete guess,” Nagvekar said later. “I was thinking of two cities, Regensburg and Ingolstadt. Luckily, Regensburg was correct.”If this question seems obscure, it’s not your imagination. The questions at Thursday’s bee presented geography puzzles in the context of world history, culture and current ... Continue reading →
Print publication: May 25There are times in life -- in sports, in politics, in civic affairs -- when you realize you're on the losing end and it makes little or no sense to keep pushing back. The prudent thing is to accept what is and move forward in a constructive way. That is the situation facing the Banks School District, following a decision by the state Board of Education to eliminate the use of Native American mascots at Oregon high schools. Banks High School is one of 15 across the state that must re-brand themselves within five years -- with a new nickname and logo -- or face state sanctions. The state board approved the new policy May 17, capping six years of study and ... Continue reading →
BY KATE LINEBAUGH Hospitals are getting ready to cut the cord. In place of knots of wires stuck to patients to monitor their blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen level and body temperature, doctors and the companies that supply them hope to use Band-Aid-like sensors to accomplish the same task wirelessly. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote Thursday to open up spectrum for wireless medical devices, raising the possibility of easier hospital-patient monitoring, fewer tubes in emergency rooms, and more remote monitoring at home. The shift will make it easier to track patients' conditions, improving the odds that health problems will be ...BY KATE LINEBAUGH Hospitals are getting ready to cut the cord. In place of knots of wires stuck to patients to monitor ... Continue reading →
