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Crews gained the upper hand on forest fires raging throughout Northern California on Thursday, but lost ground to a blaze threatening a rural community in a wilderness area north of Santa Barbara.California s largest blaze in the Inyo National Forest was still sending up smoke visible from Highway 395, the main road along the eastern Sierra, but authorities sent the bulk of crews to help elsewhere, said Nancy Upham, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Forest Service.Forest officials re-opened roads, campgrounds and trailheads impacted by the 35,000-acre fire, which was still listed as 80-percent contained since its western flank was smouldering in a rocky a
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A 17-month old deaf toddler named Alex Frederick recently had an experimental device implanted directly into his brainstem 鈥?a device that has yet to be approved for children in the United States. This
stanley en mexico is the exact moment it started to work. It called an auditory brainstem implant ABI 鈥?a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to people who have a sensorineural hearing impairment. This type of profound deafness is typically caused by an illness or injury that resulted in damage to the cochlea or auditory nerve. In the case of Alex, he was born premature, which doctors say caused his deafness. Normally, this condition can be treated with a cochlear implant 鈥?a tried-and-true technology that uses electrodes to stimulate auditory nerves. Doctors tried to give Alex a cochlear implant, but they had to bail from the surgery when it became clear that it wouldn ;t work due to the irregular structure of his inner ear. Alex dad, Ph
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