O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

New York-based Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, has released a video showing an ALS patient using an iPad controlled entirely by thought in what it says is the "first-ever public ...

Mark Jackson lost use of his hands after being diagnosed with ALS. A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely by thought, ...

Medical residents at a Swiss teaching hospital spend almost half of their workday on the computer, which is approximately three times the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a study ...

Last summer, a team of researchers reported using a brain-computer interface to detect words people with paralysis imagined saying, even without them physically attempting to speak. They also found ...

A computer system that translates electrophysiologic signals and sends messages to an electrical stimulator is enabling a patient with a spinal cord injury (SCI) to walk over-ground, in a new case ...

- A patient with ALS in the United States is the first person in the world to use Apple Vision Pro via an implantable brain computer interface - Brain-controlled commands replace the need for hand ...