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Dallas-based MicroTransponder is looking to treat neurological conditions with its aired Vagus Nerve Stimulation, which is designed to help patients with tinnitus as well as stroke victims. The company, which has completed clinical studies, recently announced a $5.5

Minneapolis, Dec. 30, 2015 -- At just 52-years-old, Charles Madson suffered a stroke. In the year since, he's relearned to talk and walk, and now he has jumped at the chance to be part of medical trial at the University of Minnesota – a trial that is showing some surprising results.

The Prestigious American Heart Association Journal Stroke Has Published the Results of the Paired VNS Therapy for Stroke Patients With Reduced Upper Limb Mobility

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - December 10, 2015) - MicroTransponder, Inc., (www.microtransponder.com) a privately

 Dec. 9, 2015 -- MicroTransponder, Inc., (www.microtransponder.com) a privately-held medical device company, is pleased to announce that its successful stroke rehabilitation clinical trial has been published in the prestigious academic journal Stroke. The manuscript

MicroTransponder Inc., an Austin-based medical device company, has secured $3.8 million in new capital as part of a $5.5 million funding round, with the money coming from a group of 18 investors.The company, led by CEO Frank McEachern and president and Chief Operating

It often starts off with a bang. Many a soldier, construction worker, concertgoer, or innocent passerby exposed to a loud noise walks away with the telltale symptom of tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears. The condition can also arise from other ear traumas, suc

Houston-based Microtransponder is using an implanted vagus-nerve simulator to turbocharge one of the brain’s most fundamental functions: learning. “What we’re doing with our VNS pairing therapy is trying to reorganize the brain,” says the company’s R&D director, Navzer

DALLAS, Texas – February 4, 2015 – MicroTransponder, Inc., (www.microtransponder.com) a privately-held medical device company is pleased to announce the successful completion of its 20-patient stroke trial using the Vivistim® System.  The results of this ground breaking

It’s a time of year when people look forward to great things to come in the year ahead. So we asked three local researchers about the future of medicine. Here’s what they said about some big scientific breakthroughs happening in North Texas.

Therapy for brain injuries

New techniques and devices developed in North Texas are pushing us closer to a future where doctors can reprogram damaged nerves and wiretap our brains.

Dallas is becoming the epicenter for a new wave of biomedical devices. Drug-loading fibers, biologically-adaptive tr