Philips, Accen­ture test brain-con­trolled sys­tem for ALS patients (Reuters): “The Nether­lands’ Roy­al Philips and IT con­sul­tan­cy Accen­ture are devel­op­ing soft­ware to help peo­ple with neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases like amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis, com­mon­ly known as Lou Gehrig’s dis­ease, live more independently. The com­pa­nies said they have built a tri­al appli­ca­tion that lets patients with ALS, a dis­ease…