{"id":215832,"date":"2025-06-12T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-proposal-aims-to-protect-patients-with-high-risk-brain-implants"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:07:22","slug":"new-proposal-aims-to-protect-patients-with-high-risk-brain-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-proposal-aims-to-protect-patients-with-high-risk-brain-implants","title":{"rendered":"New proposal aims to protect patients with high-risk brain implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-proposal-aims-to-protect-patients-with-high-risk-brain-implants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As companies such as Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink begin human trials of high-risk brain implants, a new proposal calls for a major change in how the U.S. handles injuries caused by the devices.<\/p>\n<p>The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adt8110\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i> suggests a \u201cno-fault\u201d compensation program to help <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patients<\/a> harmed by devices like <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain-computer+interfaces\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain-computer interfaces<\/a> (BCIs)\u2014even when no one is legally at fault.<\/p>\n<p>These devices, which are implanted in the brain to treat serious conditions like epilepsy or paralysis, can offer life-changing benefits. But they also come with serious risks such as seizures, strokes or even death. And when something goes wrong, patients often have no way to get help or compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As companies such as Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink begin human trials of high-risk brain implants, a new proposal calls for a major change in how the U.S. handles injuries caused by the devices. The article published in Science suggests a \u201cno-fault\u201d compensation program to help patients harmed by devices like brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)\u2014even when no one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}