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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

Brit Hospital Trials Brain Implant To Treat Parkinson’s Disease

Surgeons at Southmead Hospital in Bristol are implementing a tiny deep brain stimulation (DBS) device into the skull.

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Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease ‘reversed by brain implant’, trial suggests

Trial will now be expanded to twenty-five patients

The Independent UK

British surgeons implant device into brain to reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms

Southmead Hospital in Bristol is implanting tiny deep brain stimulation devices into the skulls of 25 trial volunteers. A patient who received one said its impact is 'amazing'

Daily Mirror

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MP writes to Sajid Javid over young woman's treatment at Southmead Hospital

The MP called for "an urgent review" of the case

Bristol Post

All the Bristol death and funeral announcements this week

John Bailey who passed 50-years-ago is still in the hearts of his work friends

Bristol Post

All the Bristol death and funeral announcements from the past week

One woman lived to the age of 104 years old

Bristol Post

Bristol NHS to delay staff car parking charges after free provision scrapped by government

The government had scrapped car parking charges for NHS staff during the Covid-19 pandemic but is reintroducing them on Friday

Bristol Post

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Man, 32, dies after falling from M4 Prince of Wales Bridge

His death is not being treated as suspicious

Wales Online

Latest coronavirus figures in Bristol two years since first lockdown

The virus is spreading fast again - but what about the city's hospitals?

Bristol Post

Yate mum speaks of daughter's 'awful' health battle six years after mosquito bite

Doctors think the latest relapse has been caused by the cold sore virus

Bristol Post

Driver flees B3110 crash in Somerset and leaves injured cyclist behind

The driver initially checked on the welfare of the cyclist before leaving the scene without providing any details

Bristol Post

What happened at Southmead Hospital yesterday

Dramatic day for Bristol's largest hospital

Bristol Post

Missing man, 35, was last seen at Southmead Hospital

He could have travelled to the city centre or Clifton

Bristol Post

Huge revamp of stroke services across Bristol approved

Southmead Hospital to become stroke centre of excellence

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Hospital patient moved to hotel and 'left without care for over a week'

Linda Slade has told how her father was taken from Southmead Hospital to the Bristol Hotel due to Covid concerns and staff shortages but then left for over a week without medical care

Bristol Post

Southmead Hospital patient moved to hotel and 'left without care for over a week'

"It was eight days before the first nurses came in to see my dad"

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