Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Brainsway to Test TMS for Smoking Cessation

Filed under: Medicine , Psychiatry

Brainsway Ltd. out of Jerusalem, Israel, a company we've been covering over the last few years, has received local approval to conduct clinical trials of its deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an aid in quitting smoking. The drastic approach is to be tested on about 100 lung cancer patients that have not been able to quit using other methods.

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