Waking in terror, Sarah Elizabeth Cox could just make out that the door to her apartment was wide open and a huge, hooded figure was walking towards her.
She figured he was seven or eight feet tall, and though she couldn’t see his face, she had the sense that he looked like one of the Gentlemen, a ghoulish character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bald head, sunken eyes, and wide, malicious grin.
The figure stopped at the side
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In Brussels, the Netherlands is known for its assertive positioning in EU legislation in a wide range of policy files. Despite its relatively small size, the Netherlands has a tendency to get involved, even on files that are not at the core of the Dutch domestic debate.
Its prime minister, Mark Rutte, is the second-longest serving European Union leader
A system that restores communication between the brain and spine has enabled a man paralyzed by a spinal cord injury to regain near natural walking ability.
Once the patient’s brain activity was decoded, the brain-spine interface took mere minutes to calibrate, after which the man reported natural-feeling control over movements. He still needs crutches but can easily navigate ramps and steps, surpassing gains from previous treatments, researchers report May 24 in Nature.
“The results are consistent with what I’d
By his count, Michel Roccati is on his third life, at least. In the first, he was a fit young man riding his motorcycle around Italy. A 2017 crash in the hills near Turin turned him into the second man, one with a severe spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Today, the third Michel Roccati works out in his home gym in Turin, gets around with a walker and climbs stairs to visit a friend
Justin Bieber has revealed that he has suffered temporary facial paralysis from Ramsay Hunt syndrome just days after being forced to cancel dates on his Justice World Tour.
The 28-year-old pop star took to his Instagram on Friday to share a three-minute video explaining the diagnosis which is a complication of shingles that can lead to facial paralysis.
Justin’s right eye was unable to blink and the right side of his face did not move as he began the video
