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Edward Chang's team at UCSF decoded attempted speech and upper-body movement from the same electrodes on the motor cortex, so a patient could say hello and wave, or nod while saying yes. Two of three participants controlled the avatar.
Sep 15, 2026
A tiny implant paired with camera glasses can return useful central vision to some people with advanced macular degeneration, and Europe has cleared its sale.
Jul 23, 2026
Saudi-backed medical projects have delivered urgent surgery and nutrition support in Gaza, combining visiting specialist teams with a longer program targeting hundreds of patients.
Aug 3, 2026
Two individualized antisense treatments reduced the effects of a rare SCN2A disorder. The results are hopeful, but they come from two carefully monitored patients, not a broad trial.
Aug 1, 2026
Detoxification is a genuine medical process and a genuine biochemical one. Neither has anything to do with juice cleanses, foot pads or teas, and the marketing depends on never naming which toxin is being removed.
Sep 4, 2026
One patient cannot bear a bedsheet touching their feet. Another cannot feel a nail through their shoe. Both have diabetic neuropathy, and the second is in more danger than the first.
Jul 28, 2026
A randomised crossover trial with a sham unit found the effect only in participants aged 40 and over. It is also a secondary outcome analysis, it ran for a month, and it had fewer than ten people over 60 in it.
Aug 31, 2026
Heat illness is one of the most preventable medical emergencies there is, and most of the popular advice about it is either useless or actively wrong. The humidity is what changes the arithmetic.
Aug 8, 2026
