WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc missed the main effectiveness goal in a study testing an approved brain device for treatment of epilepsy, U.S. device reviewers said in documents ...
Medtronic Percept™ DBS therapy is the only sensing-enabled † DBS system available, allowing a physician to use data from a patient’s brain activity to personalize their treatment. Andy says Medtronic ...
Medical tech company Medtronic has just landed FDA clearance on its Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Clinical Programmer and ActivaProgramming application. "This marks a new era of innovation from the ...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In the largest, randomized, controlled study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, Medtronic DBS Therapy was shown to improve motor function for up to ...
The US FDA approves Medtronic’s rechargeable deep brain stimulation for patients with movement disorders and epilepsy. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a rechargeable deep brain ...
The technology is designed to adjust therapy in real time based on a patient’s brain activity, potentially improving symptom control, according to a Feb. 24 news release from the company. The ...
MERRIFIELD, Minn. — Bruce Lunde has never let his age stop him from staying active, so when Parkinson's Disease threatened to slow him down at the age of 81, he decided to take action. Lunde recently ...
New closed-loop system self-adjusts DBS therapy to individual brain activity in real time; the largest commercial launch of brain-computer interface technology ever There is no cure for debilitating ...
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proven to be a remarkable success for the treatment of many movement disorders. The dramatic video below shows what happens to Andrew “Cyber-AJ” Johnson just seconds ...
Keith Krehbiel lived with Parkinson’s disease for nearly 25 years before agreeing to try a brain implant that might alleviate his symptoms. He had long been reluctant to submit to the surgery. “It was ...
In 2003, Medtronic first received a humanitarian green light from the FDA to offer its deep brain stimulation implants to treat the symptoms of dystonia—the painful movement disorder that can cause ...