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In Your Head

 
27th October 2021

A life of adventure after stroke

When Paul McLean suffered a severe stroke at the age of 40 his chances didn’t look good. Thanks to an innovative procedure enabled by medical technology, Paul is now ...

by Comms Team In Your Head
 
19th February 2021

Encephalitis and beyond

by Comms Team In Your Head
 
8th February 2021

EPILEPSY HAS NOT SLOWED ME DOWN

by Comms Team In Your Head
 
In Your Head 27th October 2021

A life of adventure after stroke

When Paul McLean suffered a severe stroke at the age of 40 his chances didn’t look good. Thanks to an innovative procedure enabled by medical technology, Paul is now embracing a life filled with adventure and is enjoying watching his ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 19th February 2021

Encephalitis and beyond

Rhianna Urquhart was just starting university when she developed strange and erratic psychiatric symptoms that baffled her doctors. At that time, Rhianna’s mum couldn’t have imagined that her daughter would get to where she is today, back home ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 8th February 2021

EPILEPSY HAS NOT SLOWED ME DOWN

Rising cycling star Matthew Robertson worried his epilepsy would stop him from achieving his dream: to cycle for Great Britain. To mark International Epilepsy Day, Matthew shares his story, as he continues to show his colours as part of the ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 9th February 2020

My epilepsy has never held me back

World Champion hurdler Dai Greene has lived with epilepsy since he was 16. To raise awareness on International Epilepsy Day, the Welsh athlete shares his story with This Is MedTech. “I’d been at a New Year’s Eve party and ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 12th June 2019

A remarkable recovery from a severe stroke

33-year-old Stuart White was paralysed on his left-hand-side and struggling to speak, following a stroke in the early hours of the morning. After a minimally-invasive procedure, the clot was removed and he walked out of hospital within 24 hours without symptoms. “...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 11th April 2019

Finding relief from Parkinson’s with deep brain stimulation

When Karen Missenden started having faint tremors in her arm, she had a feeling it wasn’t related to the shoulder surgery she’d undergone a few months earlier. “I went to the GP and had some tests done, but ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 20th March 2019

Saving your mouth with virtual surgery

Bob Bevins was doubtful that surgery could restore his speech and ability to swallow after being diagnosed with oral cancer, but he was willing to try. After all, this was no straightforward operation. It involved a complex 10-hour procedure to ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 12th March 2019

Putting a halt to blindness

As a full-time carer for her husband, Katy Styles couldn’t afford to lose her eyesight to glaucoma. “My mother has glaucoma, my grandfather and both grandmothers had glaucoma, so I have always been aware of the condition,” Katy tells ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 4th March 2019

Music to her ears

“My mum discovered I had a hearing issue when she gave me the phone to speak to my Gran one day and I hung up because to me there was no-one there. I think I was around four or five.” ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 14th February 2019

Saving your eyesight

If it doesn’t hurt, there’s nothing to worry about…right? Wrong. Michiko Shah saved her vision when she decided to get some painless eye symptoms checked out. “One morning last summer I was walking to the train station ...

• by Comms Team

In Your Head 18th December 2018

The dizzying impact of an inner ear disorder

When Jennifer Rout had an attack of vertigo on holiday, it turned her world upside down – both literally and figuratively. Nearly six years later, life is pretty much normal again, but it’s been a long journey. “In January 2013, whilst ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 9th May 2017

Amazing Charlotte: ‘I once was blind, but now I see’

“I first noticed problems with my vision when I was just 10 years old,” says Charlotte. “At the beginning of the school year I could read what the teacher wrote on the board but by the end of the year I ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 31st March 2017

‘How an old friend helped me see clearly again’

It was just a chance encounter between two old friends who had met at university. But when Javier told Carlos of his vision problems, Carlos offered to perform surgery that would solve the problem. Perhaps we should mention at this ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 15th March 2017

Mother-turned-mental health advocate

Regina Bisikiewicz didn’t start out intending to become a full-time mental health advocate. She just wanted her son to get better. From the moment her 18-year-old son had his first psychotic episode in 2005, the mother of four encountered a ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 12th October 2016

Switching on your eyesight

Rhian Lewis couldn’t believe it when doctors turned on her bionic eye for the first time. The 50-year-old from Wales has retinitis pigmentosa, a disease involving a faulty gene in which a person’s vision dims from the periphery ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 7th October 2016

Looking after your mental health

Wearing devices that monitor physical changes in our bodies has become the new norm. But what if this so-called ‘wearable technology’ could track our mental health, too? The idea isn’t as far-fetched as it may sound. Soon we’ll ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 13th September 2016

I’m a Warrior, Not a Victim

As a writer, I have my selection of favourite words in the English language. Words like orang-utan, spiralizer, and cocoon. However, to me, the best word in the English language is: warrior. While for some of you this word might ...

• by Alice Barker

In Your Head 29th August 2016

Crossing mountains despite Parkinson’s

Tony Seidl was shocked when, at age 39, doctors diagnosed him with Parkinson’s disease. After all, isn’t it something people’s grandparents have? In fact, most of the one in 500 people who have Parkinson’s are over 50 but you ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 13th June 2016

Stopping seizures in their tracks

After enduring regular epileptic seizures and trying new treatments for nearly three decades, Hélène Gonnot was fed up. The epilepsy medication that she’d been taking since her teens wasn’t working and Hélène’s doctors ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 26th May 2016

This MS patient welcomes an uphill climb

Avid mountaineer Ginty Telfer-Wilkes refuses to let multiple sclerosis get in the way of her sky-high pursuits. Since being diagnosed with the neurological condition last year, Ginty has made it her personal mission to show the world that people with ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 19th January 2016

Bionic eye helps blind woman to see again

Rhian Johnson had seen nothing for five years until a ‘bionic eye’ gave her back her sight. Just as doctors can help deaf people to hear again, this breakthrough is the latest inspirational story of how scientists can save our ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 12th January 2016

Ignorance is not always bliss

The stigma and misunderstanding that surround mental illness in developing countries leads to humiliation and hardship. Maurilia’s family had tied a rope around her neck to restrain her after a series of aggressive outbursts. Once a healthy and active ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 3rd December 2015

Roadshow (rəʊdʃəʊ/) noun: A clever way to teach deaf awareness in schools

You may not find this definition in the dictionary, but for National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) Roadshow manager Damian Ball, it’s the one that matters most. Damian inspires young deaf people every day by driving around to schools ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 29th October 2015

Marathon Runner Survives Stroke by Racing to Care

As a stroke coordinator for a hospital, Teri Ackerson knew the signs of a stroke, and what to do if someone displayed those symptoms. What she didn’t know was that sooner rather than later she would need to put ...

• by Mariellen Brown

In Your Head 4th June 2015

Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, depression and the switch that might turn them off

When we use a radio, we switch it on, tune into the station we want to listen to and then adjust the volume by turning it up and down. Could we switch conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s off ...

• by Shweta Kulkarni Van Biesen

In Your Head 19th April 2015

Getting a good night’s sleep doesn’t have to be a pipe dream

Nobody is at their best after a bad night’s sleep, so imagine how you would feel if you never slept well. Like, never ever. Pretty desperate, huh? This was the reality for Stuart Lamont before he got treatment for ...

• by Karen Finn

In Your Head 9th February 2015

Watch these teenage girls celebrate their braces

Remember those braces you had to wear when you were younger? Or how you felt when your dentist suggested that you should get them in your thirties? Only the thought of smiling in public was terrible; hiding those metallic devices ...

• by Julia Alvarez Herraez

In Your Head 8th January 2015

Migraine-combating, brain-fitness or just a chill-out? Headband medtech on the rise

It seems we just can’t get enough of wearables. But while on one hand developers are working on making them more discreet or even fashionable (ear buds, anklets, wristbands) there seems to be a group who decide to take ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 8th January 2015

Depressed? Your smartphone knows

Smartphones have for long been so much more than smartphones. They can give us an eye exam, tell if we have an ear infection, help in managing diabetes. Diagnostics is one of the area leading the way, using phones as ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 8th January 2015

Wristbands out, earrings in? Wearables for your ear

Last year was all about fitbits, wristbands, and smartwatches. Accessories you wear on your wrist that track your activity, log it, analyze it, and then give suggestions. But still in their infancy they may need to hand it over to ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 12th December 2014

Scandinavia opens its eyes to laser surgery

If you’re one of the millions of people around the world who chooses contact lenses (or has perfect sight), you’ll already know how amazing it feels to drive, swim or just go for a walk in the rain ...

• by Maddy Savage

In Your Head 9th December 2014

Alzheimer’s – do you wanna know?

They call it the long goodbye. People with Alzheimer's disease slowly but surely slip away, losing their memory and, often, their personality. They forget their families, and their loved ones barely recognise the person they once knew. It begins with ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 27th November 2014

These brace-faced kids will make you laugh

The orthodontist’s chair is one of those universally feared places. No need to deny that. Cavities, drills, shoves and pulls; plenty of reasons to feel uneasy. When you’re hitting puberty, you get another reason to palpitate: braces. Let’...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 18th November 2014

Speech to text and sign to speech

“There’s not been any real innovation for those deaf who cannot speak . . .” says founder of Motionsavvy, Ryan Hait-Campbell. And I believe him. Because if there’s anyone who would know about revolutions for the deaf, it’s a tech-savvy ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 26th October 2014

Cochlear implants: 50 years of ‘miracles’

Imagine you had never heard sound – until your doctor flicked a switch and introduced you to a sense you had never known. Or think for a moment what it would mean to you to lose your hearing as a child ...

• by Gary Finnegan

In Your Head 8th October 2014

What it’s like to see again after 10 years?

A 66-year old grandmother of two made headlines last week from the BBC to the Atlantic. And rightly so. Fran is now able to see again after 10 years of blindness. Fran lost her sight over the course of several years ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 3rd October 2014

Eyes, ears, nose or a skull? Can you 3D print an entire human face?

Ancient (and not-so-ancient) prostheses like  the glass eyes of the 1800s and wrought iron arms of the middle ages did nothing more than cover up problems, doing very little to actually solve them. Today, it's about much more than that. ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 18th September 2014

Detecting Parkinson’s by taking a few steps

You may have a feeling, a thought lurking in the back of your head. The tremor, the loss of smell, the slight change in voice. You may think your parents are developing Parkinson’s. The next question is finding out ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 18th September 2014

Are you colour blind? – Listen to colour through the ‘eyeborg’

Neil was born with a rare case of achromatopsia (total colour blindness), a disease causing him to see the world in shades of grey. Colour blindness is one of the most common conditions today: approximately 8% of men, and a 0.5% of ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 18th September 2014

That weird ringing sound in your head – it may be tinnitus

Nine months ago, Elias Brandt switched his television off after watching a movie. The room was silent but he still heard something – a high frequency squeak that he compares to a train slamming on its brakes. The source of the ...

• by Brett Kobie

In Your Head 10th September 2014

Baby hearing for the first time brings internet to tears

By now you may have heard of Lachlan. He’s about eight weeks old and at the start of this video, he has all the hallmarks of your average feisty newborn. Only, he’s not so average – he was diagnosed ...

• by Andrea Toth

In Your Head 31st August 2014

Electronic eye sensor watches out for glaucoma

Researchers have designed a high-tech, low-power sensor that can be placed permanently in a person’s eye to track hard-to-measure changes in pressure and monitor for diseases like glaucoma. The sensor would be embedded with an artificial lens during cataract ...

• by Michelle Ma

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