From: Tiberius Gracchus (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 01:55:32 MDT
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:07:58 -0700, you wrote:
Interesting article:
For decades, doctors have used pacemakers to regulate the heart. Now
they're implanting similar devices into the brain.
Thousands of patients with the most serious cases of Parkinson's
disease and epilepsy have received the devices since they obtained
approval in 1997 from the Food and Drug Administration. Hundreds more
are slated to take part in clinical trials to see if the pacemakers'
electrical impulses can control chronic pain, depression and even
obesity.
More here.....
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,46278,00.html
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