British teen receives world's first epilepsy device implant
A British teenager with severe epilepsy has become the first child in the world to receive a brain implant to control his seizures. Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital fitted a neurostimulator under 13-year-old Oran Knowlson's skull. It sends electrical signals deep into the brain, and has reduced his seizures by around 80 percent. After years of having up to 300 seizures a day, his mum, Justine, said: "I feel like I'm getting my child back a little bit, bit by bit. It's going to take time, but for the first time in ten years, we actually have hope." Three more children will soon ...