New Implantable Device To Beat High BP, University of Freiburg Study

High blood pressure is normally treated with drugs, but they often don’t work very well and in many cases patients stop responding to them. Renal denervation has been a promising technique, but recent news of Medtronic’s SYMPLICITY system failing to achieve a primary efficacy endpoint in a clinical trial put a lot of doubt about the technology. Now researchers at University of Freiburg in Germany have developed a new electronic device that has shown an impressive ability to reduce hypertension in rats.

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