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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The 250-person Reset-RA study, in which half the participants receive no stimulation for the first 12 weeks after implantation, is now evaluating efficacy.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Uber’s value proposition is that it is cheaper than using a taxi and much cheaper than using a personal car. In the U.S.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. It appeared in the August 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum. To probe further.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.) An abridged version of this article appears in the November 2021 print issue as " Electricity's Perilous Narrative Arc.". Are we ready now?

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