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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

World first epilepsy device fitted in boy's skull at Great Ormond Street Hospital

A teenager with severe epilepsy has become the world’s first patient to trial a new brain implant to control seizures.

Oran Knowlson had the device implanted at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital in October 2023 at age 12 - and eight months on his daytime seizures have reduced by 80 per cent.

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