NEW YORK - Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.

Events in the area for the week starting May 19, 2012.

Cathy Hutchinson of East Taunton, Mass., sips a drink held by a robotic arm during a test in Dorchester, Mass., in 2011.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal authorities say a New Jersey doctor has pleaded guilty in an illegal kickback scheme involving more than a dozen health care providers.

Dov Rand admitted during the hearing to taking two different kickbacks in exchange for referring two patients to the Orange Community MRI facility for MRI tests