As It Happens6:21A brain implant reduced this boy’s epilepsy seizures by 80%. And he charges it with his headphones Before he got his new brain implant, 13-year-old Oran Knowlson’s whole life revolved around his seizures. The British boy has a rare, medicine-resistant form of epilepsy that caused him to have hundreds of seizures a day, … Read more
Lorraine Sherren says what’s holding her together as she and her husband grieve the death of their 40-year-old son is knowing he was able to donate his heart, with some out-of-the-box thinking. Robbie Sherren, 40, was a Special Olympics bowler, Trekkie and computer whiz, his parents said. What started as a trip to the emergency … Read more
The U.S. plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election-year move that’s likely to increase friction between the world’s two largest economies. The tariffs are unlikely to have much of an inflationary impact because of how they’re structured. Administration officials said they … Read more
