Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how the company’s work with PRIMA fits
New, mysterious and cryptic clips of Dakota Johnson flanked by another woman and man have taken rhe internet by storm, but this time, they aren’t part of her latest movie, “Verity”; they’re part of a Taylor Swift music video. Swift announced Thursday that she will unveil the music video for “Patient Zero” at the MTV
An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday before striking multiple vehicles and erupting into a blaze, officials said. Videos from the scene showed a fire and thick black smoke rising from the plane. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said that firefighters were “working on extinguishing the fire and assessing
Hospitals are notorious for bad food. When patients eat poorly, it can increase the price of their stay by 30%. Malnourishment costs the US healthcare system billions each year. But offering good food isn’t easy. Many hospitals operate on negative margins. Some have a budget of as little as $4 per patient meal according to
When I moved from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico two years ago, with my husband and then-3-year-old son, we were firmly “one and done.” Life with a toddler in New York City was too hard; we spent weekends at chain-link fence-enclosed playgrounds that were either shadeless and sweltering in the summer or freezing and depressing in
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. He died June 26 in Oklahoma and was the last polio patient in the United States to use the machine, his sister said. She was 78 years old. “They told him he wasn’t supposed to
