Implantable wireless devices trigger — and may block — pain signals

Monday, November 9, 2015 - 13:20 in Health & Medicine

Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate — and, in theory, block — pain signals in the body and spinal cord before those signals reach the brain. The researchers, atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of […]

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