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gammaCore Sapphire Helps Control Migraines and Cluster Headaches: Now Available in U.S.
electroCore, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, is releasing in the U.S. its latest device for treating pain related to migraines and episodic cluster headaches. The gammaCore Sapphire, cleared by the FDA, uses the same non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation technology as the original gammaCore device, but is smaller and more modern looking, features more pleasant electrodes, a bigger and brighter screen, and intensity buttons on the side for easier control during therapy sessions. The gammaCore is placed against the neck in the vicinity of the vagus nerve, which it stimulates to help control symptoms of migraines and c...
Source: Medgadget - August 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs

Can We Treat Obesity with Regulated Hunger Signaling?
Recent research suggests that obesity can be controlled by regulating the satiety cascade, including influencing the nerves carrying hunger signals. Global obesity levels have almost doubled in the last 30 years. This is a worrying fact, especially when considering that obesity represents one of the major risk factors for many chronic diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in particular. Thus, it is not surprising that conditions like insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, and diabetes are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Although it is clear that obesity develops when caloric energy intake exceeds energy expen...
Source: World of Psychology - May 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain Blogger Health-related Publishers Research gut-brain axis hunger signaling Obesity Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

LivaNova ’s SenTiva Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy Cleared in Europe
LivaNova won European CE Mark clearance for its SenTiva generator and accompanying Programming System for treatment of epilepsy in patients that don’t respond well to drugs. It is able to detect the onset of certain seizures and deliver extra stimulation to help to avoid or lessen the impact of the seizure. The same system received FDA approval last year. The device measures the person’s heart rate and body position, logging the data so that it can be accessed by a physician following seizures to better understand what happened. It comes with a programming wand and a tablet computer to wirelessly program th...
Source: Medgadget - April 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs

Welcoming Bioelectronic Medicine
Valentin A. Pavlov, Managing Editor and Margot Puerta, Executive Editor Can you tell us a bit more about the aims and history of Bioelectronic Medicine? The field of bioelectronic medicine comprises basic research identifying the mechanisms of neural regulation and their translation into new treatments for many diseases and conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and paralyses. The first successful examples of this translational approach are the recent clinical trials with vagus nerve stimulation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. The team-based efforts of immunologists, neur...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alice Ridgway Tags: Medicine Open Access Publishing Bioelectronic Medicine Source Type: blogs

LivaNova ’s New SenTiva Neurostimulator for Epilepsy FDA Approved
LivaNova, a UK firm, won FDA approvals for its newest vagus nerve stimulation system for treating epilepsy in patients as young as four years old. The system, which includes the SenTiva implantable neurostimulator and the VNS Therapy Programming system, monitors brain activity and delivers therapy when it believes a seizure may be imminent. During therapy it continues its monitoring routine, increasing its stimulation if it detects its initial attempts failed to prevent a seizure. The SenTiva device is now the world’s smallest available responsive stimulator for epilepsy, which makes it compatible with pretty small ...
Source: Medgadget - October 9, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs

Social Justice Trumps Fancy Tech In This Week ’s Bioethics News
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Some weeks when I think about what my blog will be about, there are very few relevant items in the news. And then some weeks there are too many things to talk about. This week is one of the latter. Besides the Graham-Cassidy bill (which I discussed in detail last week), there is the lack of any movement on renewing the CHIP program, the patient who may have had a change of consciousness after vagus nerve stimulation, or even the Ohio law that does not allow minors to consent for their own treatment in any circumstances, meaning that teenagers in labor cannot have pain relief (i.e.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 28, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Global Ethics Health Care Health Disparities Justice Politics Public Health Social Justice Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico Source Type: blogs

Non-Invasive gammaCore Device to Fight Pain of Cluster Headaches Released in U.S.
The gammaCore non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator from electroCore, a Basking Ridge, New Jersey company, is now available for adult patients to treat acute pain arising from episodic cluster headaches. Currently only available with a doctor’s prescription, the gammaCore device is used to transmit an electric current through the neck and to the vagus nerve. This is done by placing the electrodes of the gammaCore on the side of the neck and initiating the device’s therapy routine. The gammaCore can be used just about anywhere and it’s small enough to be taken along to work or on trips. There is no maximu...
Source: Medgadget - July 20, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs

LivaNova ’s Seizure Fighting Vagus Nerve Stimulators Approved for MRI
LivaNova, a company with offices in Texas and Belgium that makes vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) systems that help to prevent the onset of epileptic seizures, received FDA approval for patients with the implants to be free to undergo MRI scans. While some precautions are still necessary, the previous MRI related approval required special equipment to be used during scans that is rarely available. The new approval essentially means that patients should be able to safely receive MRI scans at any imaging facility, greatly expanding the diagnostic options for people that have a high chance of requiring imaging in the future. ...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs

New Technique Improves Electric Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Chronic Inflammation
Electric stimulation of the vagus nerve stimulation is a powerful emerging technique for managing a number of conditions, including chronic inflammatory diseases. Yet, while targeting biophysical mechanisms involved in inflammation, one can stimulate others that manifest in unpredictable side effects. Researchers at Georgia Tech have invented a way of delivering electrical stimulation in a more targeted way, using an additional electrode that prevents some nerve activity while letting the stimulating electrode do its thing. The result is few side effects while achieving maximum therapy. “We use an electrode with a kilohe...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs

From Basic Research to Bioelectronic Medicine
Kevin J. Tracey of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the research branch of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, helped launch a new discipline called bioelectronic medicine. Credit: North Shore-LIJ Studios. By showing that our immune and nervous systems are connected, Kevin J. Tracey of the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research helped launch a new discipline called bioelectronic medicine. In this field, scientists explore how to use electricity to stimulate the body to produce its own disease-fighting molecules. I spoke with Tracey about his research, the scientific process...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 6, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Pharmacology Cellular Processes Clinical Trial Inflammation Source Type: blogs

When is disclosure not disclosure?
WHEN IS DISCLOSURE NOT DISCLOSURE? Hint: When it is made by the Chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force.Here is a case study in conflict of interest (COI). A remarkable confession has just appeared by a group of 5 prominent academics, writing in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. Having been outed to the Editors, they now admit to concealing pertinent financial information. One of the five is David J. Kupfer, MD, chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force and past chairman of the department of psychiatry at The University of Pittsburgh. The others are from Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and Chicago.With millions in funding from NIMH, these folks have be...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Bernard Carroll conflicts of interest David Kupfer deception DSM-5 JAMA JAMA Psychiatry NIMH Robert Gibbons Thomas Insel Source Type: blogs