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Vagus Nerve Stimulation

  • NBC News
  • Apr 24, 2017
  • 1 min read

The FDA approved a vagus nerve stimulator to treat cluster headaches.

A study in the journal Headache last September showed the treatment appeared to help just over a quarter of cluster headache patients who tried it, versus about 15 percent of those given a sham treatment. This went up to about a third of patients with so-called episodic cluster headaches.

 
 
 
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