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Posts Tagged ‘electrical’

A New Solution for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy without Surgery

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January 4, 2012

Out of the 3 million Americans that suffer from epilepsy, 30% do not respond to drug therapy.  Vagus nerve stimulation [...] Read More »

Electromechanical Wave Imaging

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October 3, 2011

Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI) is an advanced form of ultrasound that can be used to identify the exact location of an arrhythmia by mapping the heart's sequence of electrical activity, thus, allowing cardiologists to diagnose and plan therapies non-invasively. It is a simple, quick, noninvasive technology. Read More »

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July 5, 2011

Chemotherapy has been in use as a treatment for cancer since the early 20th century. Since then, it has grown to a $42 billion world market. Electrically-enhanced chemotherapy uses a pulsed electrical field to increase the cell membrane’s permeability. This allows the anticancer drug molecules that previously could not pass cells’ membranes to be absorbed directly in to the tumor. Read More »

Electrically – Enhanced Chemotherapy – Simple and Effective

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July 5, 2011

Chemotherapy has been in use as a treatment for cancer since the early 20th century. Since then, it has grown to a $42 billion world market. Electrically-enhanced chemotherapy uses a pulsed electrical field to increase the cell membrane's permeability. This allows the anticancer drug molecules that previously could not pass cells membranes to be absorbed directly in to the tumor. Read More »