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Doctors warn about the rise of people with obsolete medical implants

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A man using a touch screen to test his Argus II eye implant in 2009. The device was discontinued in 2019.

Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP/Alamy

Doctors are concerned about the growing number of people being left with obsolete medical implants inside their bodies, due to the companies behind these devices shutting down or abandoning their products.

Speakers at the Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit, held in London last week, have called for medical regulators to take action to ensure such patients receive continuing medical care.

Some of those affected might need the non-functional device to …

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