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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