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First human patient with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip Noland Arbaugh shares 100 days update Noland Arbaugh, the first human to receive Elon Musk’s Neuralink N1 brain implant has marked his 100th day with the device by sharing a detailed post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Arbaugh who was paralysed from…
AI-generated representational image. AGRA: Two armed men, including a Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawan, barged into a private hospital in Aligarh and fired a bullet at a 38-year-old patient point blank even as other patients and attendants watched in horror around 10 pm Monday. The assailants then fled. The critically injured patient was shifted to…
India No. 1 Sumit Nagal in action during the ATP Challenger tournament in Pune. New Delhi: Sumit Nagal had just stepped off the court after playing his first-round match at the ATP Challenger in Delhi. He went past Spain’s David Jorda Sanchis in straight sets and posed for selfies with a handful of kids who…
In an incident that triggered public anger, an ambulance rushing to attend to a critically ill patient was allegedly stopped midway after it grazed a car near Alliance University at Anekal in Bengaluru Rural district on Saturday. (Image Credit/ X) BENGALURU: In an incident that triggered public anger, an ambulance rushing to attend to a…
Cancer is no longer a rare disease. With rising life expectancy, changing lifestyles, pollution, and late detection, the cancer burden continues to grow, especially in countries like India. Hospitals are seeing younger patients, more advanced disease, and longer treatment journeys. And while treatments have improved, the experience of cancer therapy is still physically and emotionally…
Andre Yarham. (Pix via Samantha Fairbairn / SWNS) The UK’s youngest known dementia patient, Andre Yarham, has died aged 24, less than two years after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of the disease. Doctors had told his family that, despite his age, his brain showed degeneration comparable to that of a 70-year-old.According…
A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Narula and Panwar, in the office of CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan, apologised to each other and to the people…
Shimla: A week-long healthcare crisis in Himachal Pradesh has eased after the state govt agreed to review the sacking of a senior resident for assaulting a patient, prompting hundreds of striking doctors to return to their wards.Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu intervened to end the deadlock on Monday, signalling a conciliatory shift by promising a…
Shimla doctor who thrashed patient sacked: Govt finds act ‘unbecoming of a public servant’ SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh govt on Wednesday terminated the services of Dr Raghav Nirula, a senior resident doctor in the department of pulmonary medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, for assaulting a patient on Dec 22.The action was taken…
A Mexican navy aircraft carrying medical patients crashed into the waters of Galveston Bay in Texas on Monday afternoon, killing at least five people, including a two-year-old child, US coast guard officials said, according to AP. Four people were rescued alive, while one person remains unaccounted for, a spokesperson for the coast guard’s Houston-Galveston sector…
