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Inoculation of the chip into the brain restores motor ability to paralyzed people
For the first time in the world, an American polio man can move his finger after being implanted into the brain.
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The most terrible diseases of all time
Many people think that plague, leprosy and polio ... are diseases of the past, no longer affecting us, it is a wrong thought.
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The new virus causes paralysis in children
Scientists believe that a virus similar to polio virus causes many paralysis in children with unknown causes in the United States.
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Learn how to experience failure to succeed
What do light bulbs, vaccines prevent polio and the Internet have in common? It was all these early inventions that were considered to be failures, but then extremely su…
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The machine promises to free the paralyzed person
A young man with polio in the US can use his thoughts to move his fingers and hands thanks to a device called Neurobridge.
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WHO declared an emergency state of polio
In an unusual and disturbing development, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a reappearance of polio.
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America: Occurrence of irreparable paralysis
Researchers in the US have said that a rare polio syndrome has not had a treatment method on a small number of children in California in recent times.
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10 diseases once terrified humans
The European population was halved by the plague, while the Spanish flu killed about 20 to 100 million people around the world earlier in the century.
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Finding a way to help a paralyzed person can still be grasped
Scientists on April 18 reported using electrodes implanted in the lab brains so they could pick up balls with a paralyzed hand. Researcher Lee Miller at Northwestern Uni…
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Attach the chip to the brain to help people with polio move themselves
British media on June 21 reported that patients with paralysis could one day move on their own thanks to a chip embedded in the brain along with controlled limbs.
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Vaccines and fears
Vaccines make us afraid. They have always been and will probably keep us scared. We feel like a vial of something is injected into our body, which is actually dead or in…
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Nano cure: Promise treatment is over
After being vaccinated with nanotechnology, rats with polio were again active. Scientists hope nanotechnology will cure many kinds of incurable diseases such as spinal c…
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More than half a century living with artificial lungs
57 years ago, Dianne Odell contracted polio (a viral infection that caused spinal cord inflammation and paralysis). Since then she had to rely entirely on artificial lun…
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Things to know about immunizations
Since the vaccine was born, millions of children worldwide have been saved from infectious diseases every year. In Vietnam, too, thanks to the expanded immunization poli…
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WHO opens new anti-polio campaign
About 16 million children living in remote areas and dangerous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan will be vaccinated against polio this week.