Month: February 2014

Dennis Sorensen, 36, tested the first prosthetic hand with sensory feedback.        

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wanted: Millions of uninsured Americans willing to give President Barack Obama's health care law a chance.

The World Health Organization has linked azodiacarbonamide to respiratory issues, allergies and asthma, and it is banned in Britain, Europe and Australia. The chemical additive is legal in the United States and Canada.        

Dennis Aabo Sorensen is the first amputee to feel in real-time with a prosthetic hand.        

Fatal Overdoses Reported in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Michigan

WASHINGTON (AP) — To feel what you touch — that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange.

Sen. Tim Scott claims that the Affordable Care Act’s taxes of $800 billion hit small businesses and families. But that’s misleading on several levels.

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Dennis Aabo Sorensen lost his left hand when a firework rocket he was holding exploded during New Year’s Eve celebrations 10 years ago, and he never expected to feel anything with the stump again. But for a while last year he regained his sense of touch after being attached to a “feeling” bionic hand that allowed him to grasp and identify objects even when blindfolded. There is still work to be done in miniaturizing components and tidying away trailing cables that mean the robotic hand has so far only been used in the lab, but Sorensen said the European research team behind the project had got the basics right. Alastair Ritchie, a bioengineering expert at the University of Nottingham, who was not involved in the research, said the device was a logical next step but more clinical trials were now needed to confirm the system’s viability.

Some key events and adult smoking rates in the fight over tobacco during the last 50 years:

What would you do if your mother’s health insurance stopped covering her care?        

Fentanyl-laced heroin suspected in multiple deaths in three states.