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BCI is being used to help paralyzed people communicate, study dreams and control robots. Elon Musk's brain chip company Neuralink has shown its first patient playing a computer game using its brain implant. It took to social media platform X to live stream Noland Arbaugh using the cursor to play chess online. Arbaugh claimed to have used the brain implant to play the video game Civilization VI. He was paralyzed below his shoulders after he suffered a road accident five years ago.

Neuralink on Wednesday live-streamed its first patient playing an online chess game using the company's chip implant to move the mouse. Neuralink is testing its brain implant technology for «people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts».

(Reuters) — Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess.

Debi Lucas had a tremor in her arm. Her feet froze when she tried to walk and she fell into her coffee table, busting her lip. She went to a neurologist who thought she had Parkinson’s disease.

(Reuters) — Orchard Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ORTX), a unit of Japan's Kyowa Kirin, priced its newly approved gene therapy for a rare, life-threatening genetic disease on Wednesday at $4.25 million, making it the most expensive drug in the United States.

Contraceptives will be available without a prescription in New York under an order signed by state health officials

Cipla executive Vikram Sudarsan, will now invest the capital to support its product pipeline for neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. This marks one of the largest early-stage funding rounds of a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. The round was co-led by new investors F-Prime Capital, Forbion, and Norwest Venture Partners.

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fasting, a popular strategy to lose weight by limiting food intake to certain times, was called into question by a surprise finding from research presented at a medical meeting. Limiting mealtimes to a period of just eight hours a day was linked to a 91% increase in risk of death from heart disease in the study, which was released on Monday in Chicago. The American Heart Association published only an abstract, leaving scientists speculating about details of the study protocol. The study was reviewed by other experts prior to its release, according to the AHA. Lifestyle interventions aimed at weight loss have come under scrutiny as a new generation of drugs help people shed pounds. Some doctors questioned the study’s findings, saying they could have been skewed by differences — such as underlying heart health — between the fasting patients and the comparison group, whose members consumed food over a daily period of 12 to 16 hours. “Time-restricted eating is popular as a means of reducing calorie intake,” Keith Frayn, emeritus professor of human metabolism at the University of Oxford, said in a statement to the UK Science Media Center. “This work is very important in showing that we need long-term studies on the effects of this practice. But this abstract leaves many questions unanswered.”

Gurmeet Chadha, Managing Partner, Complete Circle Consultants, says “you can do some bit of bottom fishing in the mid and smallcaps space in railway, defence stocks and some of the auto ancillary stocks. There have been very good corrections there but be a little more patient. It may not just come up the way you are used to seeing it last year.” Let us talk about chemicals. Do you think now these chemical stocks, the sector as a whole, could see a turnaround coming in in a slow and steady way? Gurmeet Chadha: Business performance wise, you probably will have another quarter or two. I think most of the inventory destocking has happened. It is a very cyclical sector for most chemicals except for a few certain chemistries and there is the factor of China dumping. I think in a few spaces you will find government intervention as well. But I also think that the bad news is in the price in most such names. We saw Aarti moving up when post earnings came in last month in February. One has to be selective here. You can also look at agrochemicals with now election season coming. So, we are looking at something like Tata Chemicals.

NEW DELHI : Procter & Gamble Health Ltd, a subsidiary of the multinational consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble, is preparing to expand its portfolio of vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS), especially neurotrophic vitamins, under its five-year plan, Milind Thatte, MD of the company, said. The company has a portfolio that comprises 90% of VMS products, with nasal decongestant Nasivision accounting for the remainder. “We are constantly upgrading our portfolio offerings and have launched four different products in the last three to four years.

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York City is one of a handful of veterinary hospitals across the country that is equipped to handle the most complicated cases

New Delhi, Congress' leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has raised with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the issue of «huge traffic snarls», particularly in central Delhi, due to the movement of the PM's cavalcade and urged his intervention to ensure avoidance of any hardship to people. Chowdhury raised the issue in a letter to Modi while stressing that the prime minister's security and well-being are of utmost concern to the people as a whole and there can never be any compromise or let up on that front. «Nevertheless, it is a fact that the commuters on the public roads, who are from varied sections of the society and may include daily wagers, patients, office-goers, school and college going children, are often put to immense hardship owing to blocking/diversion of traffic, which is often for long durations, due to the VVIP movement,» he said. «I have heard and am also told of instances of people missing their flights, trains, examinations, as also delays in getting critically needed medical care owing to traffic blocks. The effect on the commuters that your movement on Delhi's roads has been having may not be in your notice and knowledge in complete and objective terms,» Chowdhury said in his letter dated March 15.

The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing stricter limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment after finding a higher-than-expected cancer risk at facilities that use ethylene oxide to clean billions of devices including catheters an...

Federal civil rights investigators are looking into whether protected health information was exposed in the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare

Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care

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iron lung, died on Monday. He was 78.Alexander, who was also known online as ‘Iron Lung Man,’ spent the last seven decades of his life living in an iron lung after contracting polio when he was a child in the 1950s.The Dallas, Texas resident was diagnosed with polio when he was 6 years old and was paralyzed from the neck down, leaving him unable to breathe on his own.Despite being confined to a 600-pound iron lung, Alexander was a go-getter with a zest for life.

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ibogaine in treating various disorders. To effectively analyze the impact of this treatment, an experiment has been created where patients will receive a small dose of ibogaine every four months for the duration of a year. This includes an EEG analysis that measures the electrical currents in the body as well as regular blood tests to observe the biological effects of the ibogaine.

Charles Nader, CEO of Doc.com, knows how frustrating it can be to try and access healthcare, especially when high costs prevent people from going to the doctor or, in worst-case scenarios, avoiding going to the hospital. Telemedicine also has specific barriers to access, especially for those without insurance. But with Doc.com, Charles Nader aims to change how people seek medical care, all while utilizing technology that is aimed to be transparent, innovative, and accessible to those who use it.