| 2/25/2008 | Click here to read an article by Dr. Craig Vine that appeared recently in the "Minnesota Physician". Dr. Vine discusses the need for more treatment options and describes clinical data from the STAR*D and VNS Therapy studies. He also describes the experience of one of his patients with treatment-resistant depression and VNS Therapy. |
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| 1/30/2008 | A media story that appeared in Albuquerque, New Mexico this week describes Gloria Rossi's decades-long battle with depression and the significant improvements she has experienced since being treated with VNS Therapy. With VNS Therapy, Gloria has returned to work, is socializing with friends, and is enjoying her life again. Click on the link below for this story. |
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| 12/17/2007 | Below is a link to a positive article from MSNBC. This piece dicusses depresionn during the holidays and its impact in the workplace. In the article, a VNS Therapy patient explains her experience with depression and how VNS Therapy has helped her cope with depression during the holidays. Click on the link for more information. |
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| 12/4/2007 | The Louisiana Medical News published a story entitled "New Technique Gives Hope to Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression." This story gives an account of a woman's uphill struggle with treatment-resistant depression since 1965. Click here to read of her success with VNS Therapy as well as commentary from her psychiatrist. |
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| 10/30/2007 | Click on the link below to read the press release issued today from the Mayo Clinic titled "Treatment-resistant Depression: Explore options when depression won't go away." The press release includes information regarding causes of this kind of depression and what treatments are available. VNS Therapy is identified as a treatment option for TRD and a link for additional information is provided. |
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| 10/11/2007 | The Carroll County Times newspaper in Maryland published a story on a woman's struggle with depression and the success with VNS Therapy for TRD. Her psychiatrist also offers positive commentary about VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read the article titled "Surgery aids woman's depression." |
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| 8/5/2007 | Dayton Daily News published a story on two women with VNS Therapy for TRD, and how TRD has impacted their lives, including their ability to work. In addition, their psychiatrist provides her perspective on VNS Therapy. Click here to read the article titled, "Study: Depression No. 1 hurdle for women in terms of workplace success." |
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| 7/30/2007 | The Capital-Journal, the daily newspaper in Topeka, Kansas, printed a story on a woman experiencing VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read the article titled, "Finding light in a tunnel: Nerve stimulation, medication, therapy helps battle." |
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| 7/22/2007 | The Observer & Eccentric Newspaper Group in Michigan published an article on VNS Therapy for TRD titled, "VNS Therapy helps reduce depression - Life Saver." To read this article, click here.
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| 7/17/2007 | The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times newspapers in Connecticut published an article about a woman's experience with VNS Therapy for TRD, and her psychiatrist's perspective on VNS Therapy for TRD. To read the on-line version of the article titled, "A new hope for depression," click here. |
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| 7/15/2007 | The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper features an article on mental illness in the workplace, and highlights one person's experience with VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read the article titled, "More employers seek to help troubled workers." |
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| 7/13/2007 | An article appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the impact of depression in the workplace, and also features a woman with VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read the article titled, "The blues can be a workplace burden." |
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| 6/7/2007 | The Advertiser News in Spring Hill, Tennessee featured a story on a woman with VNS Therapy for TRD and also includes her psychiatrist's perspective on VNS Therapy. Click here to read the newspaper article, "Implanted Device Treats Spring Hill Woman's Depression." |
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| 5/31/2007 | An article titled, "Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve" appeared on Wired.com, a daily technology news website. Click here to read the article about VNS Therapy for TRD. |
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| 5/1/2007 | The Chicago Tribune reported on VNS Therapy for TRD on the first day of National Mental Health Awareness Month. The article features a woman with VNS Therapy and a notable psychiatrist's perspective. Click here to read the article titled, "Implant can relieve depression: VNS Therapy is proving beneficial." |
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| 4/25/2007 | Omaha, Nebraska's newspaper Omaha World-Herald published an article on VNS Therapy for TRD titled, "Omahan says she's proof device zaps depression." Click here to read the article. |
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| 4/18/2007 | Bloomington, Illinios' newspaper Pantagraph featured an article on a woman with VNS Therapy for TRD and her psychiatrist. Click here to read the story titled, "Emerging from the depths of depression." |
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| 4/18/2007 | Bloomington, Illinios' newspaper Pantagraph published an article titled, "Treatment-resistant depression aided by VNS." Click here to read the article.
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| 4/18/2007 | The South County Journal newspaper reported on a psychiatrist who received an NIH grant to support brain imaging research on people with VNS Therapy. To read the article titled, "NIH funds SLU scientist's exploration of depression: Psychiatrist receives awards to continue research on vagus nerve stimulation" click here. |
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| 4/16/2007 | The Toledo Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio featured a story on a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. The article also features quotes from Drs. George, Conway and Mayberg. Click here to read the article titled, "Nerve stimulation helps some cope with depression." |
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| 4/13/2007 | Topeka, Kansas' NBC TV station KSNT featured a news segment on a person receiving VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to watch the video titled " "The Pacemaker for the Brain" is Saving Lives."
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| 4/9/2007 | Bloomington, Illinios' ABC TV station featured a story on a woman with VNS Therapy for TRD and her psychiatrist. Click here to read the story titled, "Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy may help." |
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| 3/28/2007 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin's ABC TV station WISN featured a news segment on a person receiving VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to watch the video titled "New Treatment Helps Women Battle Depression." |
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| 3/23/2007 | Download this press release from the Medical University of South Carolina to read about a scientific journal article expected to appear in the April 2007 issue of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. The press release titled "MUSC Research Offers Hope for Those Resistant to Depression Treatment -- Patients who received Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy showed unprecedented long-term improvements" is available to download by clicking here. |
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| 3/20/2007 | Click here to watch a news segment titled "New Depression Treatment Offered: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy May Help Some Patients" that appeared on the WCVB-TV news in Boston, Massachusetts.
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| 3/20/2007 | Click here to watch a news segment on VNS Therapy for TRD that appeared on the KTBS news in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
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| 3/14/2007 | The Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper published a story titled "Man battles daily with severe form of non-treatable depression." Click the following link to read the story. |
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| 3/12/2007 | Click here to read an article published in Ogden, Utah's newspaper Ogden Standard-Examiner titled "Another Chance" featuring a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. |
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| 3/8/2007 | Cleveland, Ohio's NBC TV station WKYC featured an interview with psychiatrist Dr. Prashant Gajwani and a person receiving VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to watch the video titled "Vagus Nerve Stimulation." |
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| 2/13/2007 | Click here to the read the abstract of an article titled "Durability of antidepressant response to vagus nerve stimulation" published in the peer-reviewed journal The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. |
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| 1/25/2007 | MSN.com published an article that appeared in the magazine Redbook in December 2006 on a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. The title of the article is "What Does "For Worse" Look Like?" and can be read by clicking this link. |
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| 1/23/2007 | An interview with psychiatrist Dr. Brian Skop was televised on the San Antonio Living Show on the NBC affiliate WOAI. Click here to read an overview of the interview. |
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| 12/12/2006 | The Corpus Christi Caller Times published a story on two women with VNS Therapy for TRD and the impact VNS Therapy has made in their lives. In addition, their psychiatrist shares her perspective. Click here to read the article titled, "Up from hopelessness." |
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| 12/12/2006 | Seattle, Washington's TV station KOMO featured a segment on a person receiving VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to watch the video and read the transcript of the segment titled "I'm coming out of the darkness." |
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| 12/11/2006 | King County Journal in Bellevue, Washington published an article on a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read the article titled, "Back to life: New treatment lets Bellevue woman successfully deal with bipolar disorder." |
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| 11/14/2006 | The Repository newspaper in Canton, Ohio published an article on a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. Click here to read about her experience with VNS Therapy. |
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| 11/7/2006 | KSL TV in Salt Lake City, Utah televised a news segment titled "Device May Help Fight Depression" featuring a person with VNS Therapy for TRD and her psychiatrist. The video and transcription are available at this link. |
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| 11/2/2006 | This news segment on KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah featured a person with VNS Therapy for TRD. The transcript to this news segment can be found at this link. |
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| 10/23/2006 | CBS Boston featured a person with VNS Therapy for TRD in a segment titled "Electronic Chip Successful In Treating Depression." Click here to watch the video and read the article. |
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| 10/16/2006 | Click here to read an article and watch a video about a person who has received VNS Therapy for TRD. This news segment titled "Pacemaker-Like Therapy Reversed Patient's Depression -- FDA-Approved Therapy Works On Depression" appeared on KETV-7 in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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| 10/11/2006 | Letter to the editor of the journal Psychiatric Services titled "Successful Use of VNS for Depression" that appeared in the October 2006 issue. The letter was written by a private practice psychiatrist with practices in Ellicott City and Columbia, Maryland. |
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| 10/11/2006 | Click here to read a two-part article highlighting a person who has had VNS Therapy for TRD for over one year. This segment titled "VNS Helping Depression Patients" appeared on WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Georgia and also includes a video. |
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| 10/5/2006 | Click here to watch a video titled "New Treatment For Common Mental Illness" that aired in Indianapolis on the CBS affiliate WISH-TV. The video features a person experiencing VNS Therapy for TRD and her psychiatrist.
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| 9/25/2006 | Click here to read an article titled "Device offers hope in treating depression" in the Charleston Daily Mail. |
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| 9/20/2006 | Click here to read an article and watch a news story about one person's experience with VNS Therapy for TRD on WCCO News in Minnesota. |
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| 9/12/2006 | Click on this link to watch a video that appeared on news channel New York 1 titled "New Law Could Help Depression Sufferers Get Health Care They Need." This news segment features a person that received VNS Therapy for TRD after her insurance company initally denied her benefits.
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| 9/11/2006 | Click here to read an abstract from an article published by Drs. Burke and Husain titled "Concomitant Use of Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treatment-resistant Depression" in the Journal of ECT. |
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| 9/11/2006 | Click on this link to read an article published in Indiana's newspaper Noblesville Ledger titled "Nerve therapy helps woman cope with depression." |
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| 9/5/2006 | Click here to read an article titled "Husband says therapy is closest thing to a miracle" in the Suffolk News Herald. |
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| 9/1/2006 | Click here to read an article on VNS Therapy in the September/October 2006 edition of the NAMI Wichita Synapse newsletter from Wichita, Kansas. |
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| 8/23/2006 | Click here to read an article published in the Mississippi Medical News on VNS Therapy for TRD. |
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| 8/11/2006 | Click here to read an article on the WNCT News website in Greenville, NC titled "New Treatment For Depression Not In A Pill."
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| 8/10/2006 | Click here to read the abstract of a recently published article titled "Effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Serotonergic and Noradrenergic Transmission" published in J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther by Drs. Dorr and Debonnel. |
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| 8/9/2006 | Click here to watch a video of a patient with VNS Therapy for TRD and his psychiatrist on WMUR News 9 in New Hampshire. |
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| 8/8/2006 | Click here to read an abstract from a review article titled "VNS Therapy in Treatment-Resistant Depression: Clinical Evidence and Putative Neurobiological Mechanisms" published in Neuropsychopharmacology.
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| 8/7/2006 | Click here to express your opinion about Medicare coverage of VNS Therapy for TRD during the 30-day comment period that began on August 7, 2006. |
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| 7/31/2006 | Click here to read an article titled "Implanted device helps fight drug-resistant depression - Giving new hope" printed in the El Paso Times newspaper.
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| 7/28/2006 | Click here to watch a news segment on a person with VNS Therapy for TRD that appeared on KSAT-TV in San Antonio, Texas. |
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| 7/13/2006 | Download this press release to read about a scientific symposium at the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) Meeting, July 9-13, 2006 in Chicago on VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 6/29/2006 | Open this file to read about VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression in the article titled, "Grasping for Emotional Stability" in the Georgia newspaper Baldwin Bulletin. |
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| 6/27/2006 | Click here to read an article titled "Battling depression" in the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper. |
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| 6/23/2006 | Click on this link to read an article "Device offers new hope for depression" in the San Antonio Express News. In addition, a brief video of an interview with a person experiencing VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression is included. |
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| 6/9/2006 | Click here to read an article titled "Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) and Treatment of Depression: To the Brainstem and Beyond" by John O'Reardon, MD published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychiatry 2006. |
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| 5/31/2006 | Download this newspaper article titled "New surgery helps those with chronic depression" to read about VNS Therapy in the Presque Isle Star Herald in Maine. |
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| 5/25/2006 | Download this press release to read about a scientific poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting on two brain imaging studies of patients with VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 5/24/2006 | Download this file to read an article on Reuters Health titled "Nerve stimulation has long-term antidepressant effect." |
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| 5/24/2006 | Cyberonics announces support of new research study initiated to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of VNS Therapy for people with treatment-resistant depression at the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX. |
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| 5/23/2006 | Download this press release to read about 3 important research studies initiated at Duke University Medical Center, Emory University and University of Texas Health Science Center designed to increase the understanding about how VNS Therapy works in treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 5/22/2006 | Download this press release to read about a scientific poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting on data demonstrating sustained response to VNS Therapy at 2 years for people with treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 5/22/2006 | Download this press release to read about a scientific poster presented by Dr. David Dunner at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting about on-going treatment without VNS Therapy for people with treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 5/17/2006 | Cyberonics announces patient enrollment in the new Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) Dosing Study, a multi-center study to compare effectiveness of VNS Therapy stimulation parameter settings for patients with TRD, in this press release. |
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| 5/12/2006 | Download this file to read an article on VNS Therapy in the Arkansas newspaper Batesville Daily Guard. |
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| 5/1/2006 | Click here to view patient profiles added to the article titled "Making All the Right Moves for VNS Therapy" posted on February 15, 2006. The articles and additional patient profiles were published in Mental Health Journal (www.MentalHealthJournal.com). |
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| 4/16/2006 | Click here to read an article on VNS Therapy titled "Implant easing severe depression" in the Arizona Daily Star. |
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| 4/11/2006 | Download this file to read about VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. The attached file is courtesy of the Saturday Evening Post magazine (www.saturdayeveningpost.com). |
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| 3/23/2006 | Click here to read about an ongoing clinical study on VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression. The objective of this study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of VNS Therapy at different doses. Study site locations are also included in this link. |
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| 3/14/2006 | Read about VNS Therapy in the NAMI Columbus, Georgia Newsletter - News and Notes, on page 3. |
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| 3/9/2006 | Click here to view an article published in UConn Advance, the University of Connecticut's newspaper, about their offering VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 3/1/2006 | Click here to read the February edition of the Mississippi Psychiatry Newsletter. |
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| 2/21/2006 | Read about VNS Therapy in the NAMI Nebraska Newsletter - The Voice. |
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| 2/16/2006 | Open this press release to view Cyberonics' response to the Senate Finance Committee staff report on the FDA’s approval process for VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression. |
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| 2/15/2006 | Click here to view an article titled "Making All the Right Moves for VNS Therapy" published in Mental Health Journal (www.MentalHealthJournal.com). |
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| 2/14/2006 | Click here to read an article in US News and World Report, "Fixing Your Brain: When pills fail, electrical implants can mend brains damaged by Parkinson's, stroke and depression." |
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| 2/7/2006 | Read here about VNS Therapy, "New hope on horizon when treatment fails", in an article from The Waterford Times . This article is posted with permission from Post Shore Publishing and does not constitute an endorsement for VNS Therapy. |
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| 2/3/2006 | Read here about VNS Therapy in an article from MN Health. MN Health is one of 18 community health magazines written and distributed by Gannett Pacific Publications. This article appeared in several editions of the magazine.
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| 2/2/2006 | Read about VNS Therapy in the NAMI Central Ozarks Newsletter |
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| 2/1/2006 | Read here about VNS Therapy, "New nerve stimulation implant helps with seizures and depression", in an article from the Log Cabin Democrat. |
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| 1/31/2006 | Read about VNS Therapy in the NAMI Ohio News Brief |
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| 1/31/2006 | Read about Cyberonics Chairman and CEO, Robert P. ("Skip") Cummins, in an article "Success and its Side Effects" from Continental In Flight Magazine. |
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| 1/26/2006 | University of Connecticut announces availability of VNS Therapy at Health Center |
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| 1/25/2006 | Read about VNS Therapy in the NAMI Kentucky Newsletter |
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