Bengaluru: Elon Musk‘s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip startup said the Canadian study aims to assess the safety and initial functionality of its implant … Read more
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Paul Read was the first patient recruited in a new therapy trial for treating brain tumours A man’s brain tumour has shrunk by half in a matter of weeks thanks to a new radioactive therapy. Paul Read, 62, from Luton, was the first patient to take part in … Read more
Getty Images A trial to let women with worrying breast cancer symptoms book appointments directly with diagnostic clinics without going to see their GP first is being planned in one region of England. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the aim was to diagnose patients with cancer more quickly and free up more GP appointments. The … Read more
A 67-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to try what doctors hope will be a revolutionary new treatment for lung cancer – a vaccine that tells the body how to fight and kill the disease. It uses the same mRNA technology as some Covid jabs to give instructions to the immune … Read more
London: Elon Musk’s brain technology startup Neuralink said its implant, designed to allow paralysed patients to use digital devices by thinking alone, is working well in a second trial patient. The company said the patient, identified as Alex, did not face issues of “thread retraction”, unlike Noland Arbaugh, Neuralink’s first patient who received the implant … Read more
As a prelude to prohibit heavy goods vehicle movement during the daytime on Kulur Old Bridge of National Highway 66 to facilitate its repairs for a month, the Dakshian Kannada district administration will do a three-day trial from August 19 to August 21. | Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH As a prelude to prohibit heavy … Read more
By Rachael Levy London: Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone, according to the startup’s owner Elon Musk. Neuralink is in the process of testing its device, which is intended to help people with spinal cord injuries. The … Read more
Drug company Moderna says its combined flu and Covid vaccine, which targets the two diseases in a single shot, has passed a vital part of final-stage scientific checks. The phase-three trial shows the vaccine arms the body with protective antibodies. And it does so as effectively as separate flu and Covid shots, results suggest. Fewer … Read more
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia as prosecutors sought to show he still had a substance abuse problem when he filled out a form to buy a firearm. The courtroom grew quiet when Kathleen Buhle, who was married to … Read more
1 hour ago Fergus Walsh,Medical editor BBC Elliot Pfebve is taking part in the trial Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease. Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad. It … Read more