In the recovery and rehabilitation industry, electrical stimulation has become a go-to tool for physical therapy, sports medicine, chiropractors, and even post-operative care. Whether it’s for helping ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is again proposing a ban on electrical stimulation devices used to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, the agency said in a statement Monday.

A 2026 informational consumer research report examining Nooro NMES Foot Massager device claims, FDA-cleared medical device ...

Whole-body electrical muscle stimulation is a new fitness trend that involves wearing a special body suit. The suit delivers ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Wearable health technology is rapidly evolving from passive tracking to active physiological modulation. What began with step ...

Electrical stimulation can reprogram immune cells to heal rather than harm, reducing inflammation and speeding tissue repair. The discovery opens a path to new, safer therapies for chronic disease and ...

The parasympathetic nervous system has the opposite effect. It slows the heart, supports digestion and promotes a calmer ...

Researchers have built AI systems capable of steering targeted brain circuits in real time, moving neuroscience closer to precise, closed-loop control of neural activity. These tools pair machine ...

Schematics and representative images of ex vivo stimulation and neural signal recording from the mouse retina. a Schematic illustration showing the insertion of the bipolar microneedle electrode array ...