This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/13/brain-implant-restores-partial-vision-to-blind-people By Press Association Medical experts hail ‘paradigm shift’ of implant that transmits video images directly to the visual cortex, bypassing the eye and optic nerve Partial sight has been restored to six blind people via an implant that transmits video images directly to the brain. Some vision was made…
This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/severe-headache-sufferers-offered-new-treatment-on-nhs-11735440 By Emily Mee, news reporter The NHS is rolling out a number of medical innovations which are expected to benefit more than 400,000 people in the next year. People who suffer from excruciating cluster headaches are to be offered a new treatment on the NHS which removes the need…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47631079 By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent, BBC News Scientists say they have made a significant leap towards helping boys with cancer stay fertile, thanks to a baby monkey called Grady. Cancer treatment can damage a boy’s undeveloped testes and leaves a third of survivors infertile in adulthood. Baby Grady is the…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47471142 By BBC Health news GPs are urging women not to be alarmed by research linking long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use with a small increased risk of Alzheimer’s. They say HRT is an effective and safe treatment for most women with menopause symptoms and the risk is “extremely low”….
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/the-10-minute-test-for-cancer-pioneering-methods-blood-test-detection-tumours-lung-breast-colorectal By Zoë Corbyn at the Guardian Pioneering methods are being developed to find traces of tumours quickly in small blood samples About seven years ago, researchers at the US DNA sequencing company Illumina started to notice something odd. A new blood test it ran on 125,000 expectant mothers looking for genetic abnormalities such as…