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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Storm Newton

First UK patients fitted with app-controlled nerve stimulator for sleep apnoea

Natalie Boller, 63, has a Genio Nyxoah bilateral hypoglossal nerve stimulator implant fitted for obstructive sleep apnoea (PA) - (Lucy North/PA Wire)

Patients with a common sleep disorder have been fitted with an app-controlled device that zaps the nerves in the tongue to help them breathe overnight in a UK first.

The technology could spell the end for uncomfortable machinery which some people need to sleep at night.

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