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“I was adamant I wanted to get through it ... focused ultrasound capsulotomy — Anya’s surgery — there are no burr holes in the skull. No opening of the cranium, no cutting into the brain, no blood.

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s ...

JAMES Bradley was waiting for a bus when a car ploughed into him with such force that his brain flipped inside his skull.

Well, it’s not brain surgery.” It’s meant as a joke — a way to say something isn’t that hard. But for me and my colleagues, it is brain surgery. Every single day. And it’s hard in ways that go far ...

Deion Sanders' recent bladder cancer diagnosis sheds light on the importance of early testing for it — especially among Black ...

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into the heated race between two companies to build a commercial brain-computer interface.

WAKING up at 4am, Roland Wessling knew immediately that something was wrong. He and his long-term partner, Hazel Woodhams, 30 ...

TJ Rueda, a Coahoma native, has had troubling health issues the past several years. In 2018, Rueda was diagnosed with ...

Unlike Elon Musk's brain-computer interface, Synchron's doesn't require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot ...

Los Angeles Sparks star Cameron Brink returned to the WNBA 13 months after tearing her ACL to face off against the Las Vegas ...

Lucknow: The KGMU will soon introduce an interventional radiology facility, often referred to as pin-hole surgery, for cancer ...