But long-term mortality -- which her group considered a proxy for seizure control -- became substantially worse for patients ...

A new study has examined a population of pediatric patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. For these patients, the study found that the patients who received vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), when used ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers analyzed records of more than 600 vagus nerve stimulation surgeries. Mean surgery duration for those ...

The doctor says that science strongly supports the following ways of resetting the vagus nerve: Medical VNS devices can ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tivic Health® Systems, Inc. (“Tivic Health”, Nasdaq: TIVC), a health tech company that develops and commercializes bioelectronic medicine, announced today the final ...

In 1997, the FDA approved implanted vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) devices as an adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency and severity of epileptic seizures in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy patients ...

The vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) is a pacemaker-like device implanted in the chest that delivers intermittent electrical signals to the brain via an electrode wrapped around the left vagus nerve. The ...

Tiny pulses of electricity may provide the next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. The pulses would be delivered via implanted devices that stimulate the vagus nerve, and they ...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), sometimes referred to as a “pacemaker for the brain,” involves a stimulator device that is implanted under the skin in the chest, with a wire that is wound around the ...