TL;DR
A woman who had largely lost her speech to a motor neuron disease now talks, texts and makes phone calls through a wireless implant in her brain, its maker says. As of Oct. 26, the trial testing that implant no longer limits itself to people who live within a four-hour drive of a hospital: anyone in the continental U.S. who can get to one of three study sites may be considered. For people who cannot speak or move, and their families, that could turn a trial they lived too far from into one they can at least ask about. It does not yet show the device works in anyone but its first patient.
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