Sunderland Parkinson’s patient ‘feels cured’ with new device

Sunderland Parkinson’s patient ‘feels cured’ with new device

Sharon Barbour BBC North East & Cumbria health correspondent BBC Kevin Hill said he is able to go for days now without thinking about his Parkinson’s A man fitted with a pioneering, computer-controlled brain implant to tackle his Parkinson’s disease says it works so well he is sometimes able to forget he has the condition. … Read more

Sunderland boy ‘only one in UK’ with rare fatal disease

Sunderland boy ‘only one in UK’ with rare fatal disease

5 hours ago By Jim Scott, BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Chemie-Leigh Lewis says Grayson is generally a “happy” child The mother of the “only person in the UK” living with the rare and fatal condition Arts Syndrome said she had to fight for “life-changing” medication for her baby son. Chemie-Leigh Lewis, from Houghton-le-Spring on … Read more