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China joins global race to reawaken brain-injury patients through ultrasound therapy
China joins global race to reawaken brain-injury patients through ultrasound therapy
After spending three months in a coma following a brain haemorrhage, a patient in China has regained the ability to speak, eat and walk with support – part of an early clinical trial using targeted sound waves to help “wake up” severely damaged brains, according to state media. The technology, developed by a coalition including the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced…