Neuroscience
Brain implant helps completely 'locked-in' man communicate
Unable to move a single muscle, even to open your eyes. Completely locked into your own body, yet fully conscious and aware.
Mar 22, 2022
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Health
Innovative new approach to lipreading for people with hearing loss
For the 17% of American adults—or 36 million people—who live with hearing loss, navigating daily life can be an exhausting gauntlet of lost conversations. Older adults with hearing loss in particular often find noisy ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Inflammatory disorders
Drug incorporated into silicone coating reduces 'foreign body reaction' to implants
Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices—such as pacemakers and cochlear implants—is hampered by the body's reaction to foreign bodies. Now, in a study in mice, a team led by scientists at the University ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Cardiology
Survivors of heart attack with subsequent cardiac arrest at increased risk of early death
Patients who survive a heart attack together with sudden cardiac arrest are at increased risk of dying within six years following hospital discharge.
Mar 7, 2022
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Cardiology
Retiree doesn't let heart issues slow him down
A few months before the pandemic, Chris Mathews was 20 miles into a 32-mile ride with his bicycle club when he lost all strength in his legs and body.
Feb 28, 2022
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Surgery
Superhero substance used in new bone implants to combat infection
Led by the University of Sydney, an international team has developed a new kind of bone implant that reduces the chance of infection, and therefore significantly decreases implant failure rates. In Australia, a fifth of conventional ...
Feb 21, 2022
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Biomedical technology
Multifunctional biomaterial prevents bacterial infection
Moniek Schmitz developed a fast and feasible way to test new, multifunctional biomaterials that prevent bacterial growth and reduce the use of antibiotics.
Feb 17, 2022
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Neuroscience
Spinal cord implant helps paralysed patients walk again
In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralysed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to a breakthrough new spinal cord implant.
Feb 12, 2022
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Pediatrics
Survival rate increases for extremely preterm infants in the US
The survival rate of extremely preterm infants born from 2013 through 2018 in a large network of U.S. research centers improved to 78.3 percent, compared to 76 percent for infants born in the network from 2008 to 2012, according ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Health informatics
AI to help doctors treat deafness
One out of five patients with hearing loss, severe hearing impairment or who were born deaf, have deformations in the inner ear, and could benefit from having an advanced hearing aid known as a cochlear implant (CI) implanted. ...
Jan 18, 2022
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