Brainsway's Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Gets European Regulatory Approval for Treatment of Depression
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on September 8, 2009 08:15 AM
VA to Trial Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for ADD
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on August 7, 2009 12:00 AM
Brainsway to Test TMS for Smoking Cessation
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on July 1, 2009 10:56 AM
Magnetic Brain Stimulation for Cocaine Addiction, Multiple Sclerosis?
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Neurology
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on April 27, 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...
Posted in Medgadget on February 10, 2009 12:00 AM
Neuronetics TMS Depression Therapy Gets FDA OK
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Neurology
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on October 9, 2008 11:38 AM
Experiencing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Neurology
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on May 19, 2008 12:00 AM
Positive Results Reported for Deep TMS H System For Depression
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Neurology
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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...
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]...
Posted in Medgadget on July 17, 2007 04:41 PM
Deep TMS Technology by Brainsway
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Neurology
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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...
Posted in Medgadget on January 5, 2007 12:11 PM

