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.
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Unable to move a single muscle, even to open your eyes. Completely locked into your own body, yet fully conscious and aware.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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