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...when tested by doctors. Popular diagnostic tools may also be to blame. In a study published in the medical journal BMC Neurology in July, Laureys found that one of the main tools for assessing brain function in intensive-care settings - the Glasgow Coma Scale - does not perform well in chronic cases. Laureys wrote that PVS patients should be tested frequently using a standardized evaluation called the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised, which involves more thorough tests such as measuring patients' eye-tracking abilities by moving a mirror slowly over their faces. Laureys and other medical researchers are currently running a trial...
...Grant and the vast bulk of her fellow vendors are selling mechanistic solutions to the quest for sexual satisfaction. After an hour surrounded by gadgets, gizmos and extreme fashions, even the most exotic exhibits lose their power to hold the attention. Is it possible that chronic overexposure to sex - not just at this show, but in a society saturated with sexual imagery - might leave us, like tottering economies, in need of ever-bigger stimulus packages? Monique Carty, director of the succinctly named Web company Sex Toys, thinks more openness is a good thing, but admits that by "seeing sex aids...
...items. Ultimately, though, he says deflation is a symptom, not a cause, of fundamental economic ills. "You want to treat the underlying cause and that is declining economic vitality, such as not enough investment in new companies, etc." In other words, if Japan can make progress in overcoming its chronic economic malaise, deflation will eventually disappear without a direct attack by policymakers...
...early 20s Thorne developed chronic cholinergic urticaria, a condition that makes him allergic even to the heat generated by his own body. "When I became disabled, I didn't become a better person. I just became a different person," he says. He shares with the disabled cast a desire to get away from the archetypes of disability that populate film and television. The castoffs aren't noble minds trapped in unusual bodies. Indeed, they soon reveal their true colors by endlessly complaining, shirking responsibility and squabbling with one another...
...sparked repeated controversy by helping people from abroad die in its clinic, including non-terminal cases like that of Dan James, a 23-year-old British rugby player who was paralyzed from the neck down and who ended his life in Zurich last year. While his condition was chronic, it was not terminal. Minelli tells TIME that people should have the right to "put an end to their lives to avoid lingering on in states of advanced physical or mental decrepitude." (Read "Britain to Clarify Its Assisted-Suicide...