The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...

Cochlear implant surgery helps people with severe hearing loss by placing an electronic device inside the inner ear. To reach the inner ear, surgeons must first remove part of a bone behind the ear, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have taken another page right out of a science fiction novel. This time, by designing and building microscopic, ...

In 2012, an X-ray revealed a metallic implant in the leg of Terry Lovelace, a former Air Force medic who had long suppressed memories of a bizarre UFO encounter at Devil’s Den State Park in 1977. His ...

More women are choosing to remove their breast implants. "For sure, I'd say over the last three to four years, we've seen a huge surge of explantation," said Dr. Ricky Brown of Brown Plastic Surgery, ...

Common surgical options for hearing loss may include cochlear implants, or possibly a mastoidectomy, ossiculoplasty, stapedectomy, or tympanoplasty. Hearing loss is a condition that can affect people ...

What just happened? Neuralink, the brain-implant company founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to take its most ambitious step yet. The outfit plans to begin high-volume production of its brain – ...

"What's next for smart implants in health care?" details how advanced medical devices, embedded with sensors and data analytics capabilities, are moving beyond passive tissue replacement to become ...