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Shooting steady pulses of electricity through slender electrodes into a brain area that controls complex behaviors has proven to be effective against several therapeutically stubborn neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Now, a new study has found that this technique, called deep brain stimulation (DBS), targets the same class of neuronal cells that are known to respond to physical exercise and drugs such as Prozac.
The study compared the radiation dose to patient's skin during transcatheter arterial embolization, a procedure that blocks the flow of a blood to a tumor. Doses were assessed for 12 patients using a new angiography unit with a digital flat-panel system and 12 using a conventional unit for angiographic imaging.
The fight against tuberculosis is paying off, with this year's death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990. Nevertheless, 1.5 million people died from TB in 2014. Most of these deaths could have been prevented, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2015, which was released today in Washington, DC.
BIOTRONIK SE & Co KG, the pioneer in wireless remote monitoring technology for patients with cardiac devices, today announced the tenth anniversary of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring®—the world's first wireless, mobile patient monitoring technology—to be celebrated during Cardiostim in Nice, France.
A new pharmaceutical product that could significantly improve quality of life for catheter users all over the world is to be developed by Queen's University Belfast after it won a national award.
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