Taiwan micro-electronic innovations in medicine aim to outperforms drugs with implants that direclty inject pain-killing signals into the nervous system--using a handheld device to activate then on-demand: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
A pain-relieving medical implant uses a system-on-chip (SoC) to deliver pain killing signals directly to the nervous system to stop pain without drugs.
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