The Food and Drug Administration approved a vagus nerve stimulation device, which is similar to a pacemaker and implanted into a patient's neck, to treat epilepsy in 1997 and depression in 2005.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS ... may recommend using TENS as part of a long-term pain management plan. If your provider prescribes a home unit, you’ll receive training ...

A doctor programs the equipment to deliver electrical stimulation at set intervals ... “Calling a TENS unit a ‘vagus nerve stimulator’ does not mean the unit is actually stimulating the ...

For those of you who may be company, electroCore was founded in 2005 to commercialize the use of our proprietary, non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation ... ten years and tens of millions of dollars ...

Medicare will often cover the rental costs of a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) unit if a person needs it for some chronic (long-term) pain conditions or acute (short-term ...

Some of these drugs are given by infusion, and can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. They also increase a person's risk of infections. Vagus nerve stimulation might offer a way to augment ...