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Brainsway's Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Gets European Regulatory Approval for Treatment of Depression

Filed under: Psychiatry

Brainsway, a firm building transcranial magnetic stimulation systems (TMS) out of Jerusalem, Israel, just received European approval to market its devices for the treatment of depression. The TMS treatment is likely to be used initially for cases of severe drug...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 8, 2009 08:15 AM



Can a Digital Projected Heart Replace a Much Beloved Solid One?

Filed under: in the news...

For over fifty years, Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry featured a walk-through heart so visitors can become acquainted with the anatomy of the organ. The 16 foot tall model has served generations of Chicago's high school kids, undoubtedly hundreds...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 27, 2009 12:00 AM



Sonolith I-Sys Automated Lithotripter Gets Green Light in US

Filed under: Urology

The FDA has granted EDAP TMS out of Lyon, France marketing approval for the Sonolith I-Sys integrated lithotripter. The system features company's proprietary Electroconductive Technology, a touchscreen monitor for identifying stones (via X-rays or ultrasound) and, once targeted, the...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 20, 2009 12:34 AM



VA to Trial Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for ADD

Filed under: Psychiatry

Israeli business newspaper Globes is reporting that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has signed an agreement with Brainsway, a Jerusalem company profiled by us many times before, to trial the firm's deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device on twenty...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 7, 2009 12:00 AM



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...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 1, 2009 10:56 AM



iPhone App Helps Teach CPR Techniques; No Certification is Offered

Filed under: Net News

D-SIGN, a small Italian company, has partnered with a doctor to develop a CPR learning tool for the Apple iPhone. Two tracks are available, and you can choose either the American Heart Association Guidelines or European Resuscitation Council Guidelines...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 12, 2009 11:05 AM



Magnetic Brain Stimulation for Cocaine Addiction, Multiple Sclerosis?

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Brainsway Inc., a Jerusalem, Israel firm that develops deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) machines, has announced receiving approval from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to conduct a trial of its product to test whether the system can...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 27, 2009 12:06 AM



BioTrove Wins Frost & Sullivan Award

Filed under: Genetics

Frost & Sullivan awarded BioTrove, a Woburn, Massachusetts developer of mass spectrometry and qPCR (quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction) technology, with the 2009 North American Award for Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year. F&S bases the prize on...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 26, 2009 12:06 AM



Ins and Outs

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MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism... [The Sunday Times] Genome sequencing: the third generation... [Nature] B&W and Covidien to develop U.S. source of Molybdenum-99, a key medical isotope... [Babcock & Wilcox] St. Jude Medical Announces U.S. Approval of...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 10, 2009 12:00 AM



Bion Implantable Nerve Stimulator for Chronic Headache

Filed under: Neurological Surgery

Headaches are upsettingly stubborn, and can be a difficult symptom to treat chronically. Nerve stimulator therapy has become an increasingly popular studied and used avenue for headache treatment. A new cross-over study out of UCSF and the National Hospital for...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on October 14, 2008 01:34 AM



Neuronetics TMS Depression Therapy Gets FDA OK

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Neuronetics, a Malvern, Pennsylvania company, has won FDA's first approval for a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system for treatment of depression in patients that don't respond to drug therapy. This is a huge step for a technology we've been...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on October 9, 2008 11:38 AM



Ins and Outs

Filed under:

1918 Flu Antibodies Resurrected From Elderly Survivors... [Vanderbilt University Medical Center] Survivors of 1918 flu pandemic protected with a lifetime immunity to virus... [Mount Sinai School of Medicine ] FDA: BPA in Plastic Bottles Isn't a Health Hazard ... [WSJ]...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 18, 2008 10:02 AM



Battling Migraines From the Inside and Out

Filed under: Neurological Surgery , Neurology

Two interesting studies are being reported at the ongoing annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society (AHS) in Boston. The first study, dubbed Occipital Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Intractable Migraine (ONSTIM), has evaluated Medtronic's Synergy® neurostimulation device....permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 27, 2008 12:57 AM



Experiencing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

British neuroscientists are working on miniaturizing devices that would be able to deliver high tesla fields to produce magnetic stimulation within the brain, a potential therapy for migraines, and other neurological or psychiatric disorders. These new brain stimulators, called DC...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 19, 2008 12:00 AM



Positive Results Reported for Deep TMS H System For Depression

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Israel's Globes newspaper is reporting that Brainsway Ltd., a company trying to commercialize transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device, is reporting positive outcomes in the first efficacy test on a group of 64 patients with depression. The company believes that these...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 19, 2008 12:00 AM



Ins and Outs

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Gene Discovered for Type 1 Diabetes in Children[The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia] Brainsway gets permit for Parkinson's trial[Globes] Flashback: Deep TMS Technology by Brainsway No Evidence Tomatoes, Lycopene Cut Cancer: FDA[HealthDay News] Catching Poliovirus in the Act[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 17, 2007 04:41 PM



Transforming the Psychiatrist's Office

Filed under: Psychiatry

MIT Tech Review has an interesting article on where everyone's favorite specialty is headed in the future. The article features technologies that are well known around here: Neurostar System by Neuronetics, a transcranial magnetic stimulation device, and Aspect Medical Systems'...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 30, 2007 08:45 AM



A good night's sleep with the flip of a switch?

Filed under: Medicine

Interesting new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine is trying to solve an age old medical enigma: why do we need sleep? Additionally, their work may some day lead to a treatment for insomnia and other sleeping...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 1, 2007 02:06 AM



Aquilion beta 256

Filed under: Cardiology , Radiology

Monstrous in size (2 metric tons) and in computer power, Toshiba's Aquilion beta 256, the world's first 256-slice CT scanner, has now been installed at Johns Hopkins. It is the first such device in North America and only the...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 28, 2007 08:12 AM



Deep TMS Technology by Brainsway

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Do you remember our report about the Neurostar System by Neuronetics, a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device being considered by the FDA for the treatment of major depression? If you don't, maybe you need some TMS to restore your memory...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 5, 2007 12:11 PM



FDA to Consider Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Remember transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive procedure in which electrical activity of the brain is "buzzed" by an alternating magnetic field, through magnetic induction? We've followed TMS for quite some time now, for its purported usefulness in depression,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 12, 2006 12:55 AM



Spanish H1N1 Analysed

Filed under: in the news...

Scientists from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine injected mice with a reconstructed 1918 influenza virus and found an unusually fierce activation of the immune system, probably the main factor in making this virus particularly deadly. From BBC News: Scientists...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 28, 2006 12:41 AM



TMS to Help Sharpen Vision

Filed under: Neurology

The August 8th issue of Current Biology features research by Christian Ruff, Jon Driver and colleagues at University College London, on using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to actually sharpen peripheral visual perception. Specifically... In their new work, the researchers...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 10, 2006 01:52 AM



eXimia NBS System

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

European Union's Information Society Technologies (IST) has awarded Nexstim Ltd., a company out of Finland, with the European IST Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in Europe. According to the press release, the award winning technology, called Navigated...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 6, 2006 08:32 AM



'Portable' Magnetic Device Helps Prevent Migraines

Filed under: Neurology

A new study, coming out of the Ohio State University Medical Center, has shown that a TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulator) is effective in stopping migraines before they attack. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (Medgadget search), a potentially useful clinical modality, uses...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 23, 2006 12:07 AM



Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Schizophrenia?

Filed under: Psychiatry

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), an emerging technology that uses an alternating magnetic field to influence electrical activity of the brain through magnetic induction, is now being investigated for treatment of hallucinations in schizophrenia. From Yale School of Medicine: "It appears...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 13, 2006 09:38 AM



"It's like hooking up patients to a car battery"

Filed under: Psychiatry

As far as psychoactive medications have come in the last twenty years, we suspect there's even more greatness ahead for non-medical psychiatric interventions, specifically, magnetism and our old friend, electricity. Boing Boing points us to a nice overview: Vagus...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 3, 2006 11:20 AM



Medtronic Personal Therapy Manager (PTM)

Filed under: Anesthesiology , Medicine , Neurology

Personal Therapy Manager (PTM) is a patient-activated PDA pain control device by Medtronic, for use with implanted SynchroMed® II drug pumps. Introduced by the company in November, the system is an FDA-approved chronic pain treatment that can respond to...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 12, 2006 10:02 AM



Nature: Magnetic fields set senses tingling

Filed under: in the news...

Nature reports of interesting research involving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) that might have implications for patients recovering from stroke. Flashback: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); TMS Studied for Difficult-to-Treat Cases of Depression...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on October 18, 2005 12:05 AM



TMS Studied for Difficult-to-Treat Cases of Depression

Filed under: Psychiatry

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), covered by us earlier, is a procedure in which electrical activity of the brain is changed by an alternating magnetic field, through magnetic induction. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reports its involvement...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 11, 2005 06:59 AM



Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Filed under: Neurology , Psychiatry

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a procedure in which electrical activity of the brain is changed by an alternating magnetic field, through magnetic induction. Simply speaking, a magnetic field from a conducting coil is applied to the area of interest...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 27, 2004 08:05 AM