DARPA develops tiny implants that treat disease without medication

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	DARPA develops tiny implants that treat disease without medication
Date	2014-09-17 19:59 +0000
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From the «up the voltage for better erections» department:
Title: DARPA develops tiny implants that treat diseases and depression without medication
Author: evilviper@pipedot.org
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:39:25 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-09-16/darpa-develops-tiny-implants-that-treat-diseases-and-depression-without-medication

So, how y'all feeling? We can fix that.DARPA, on the back of the US
government’s BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic
implants that interface directly with your nervous system[1] and can directly
control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as
arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn’s disease), and depression.
The program, called ElectRx (pronounced ‘electrics’), ultimately aims to
replace medication with “closed-loop” neural implants, which constantly assess
the state of your health, and then provide the necessary nerve stimulation to
keep your various organs and biological systems functioning properly.The old
joke is that there's no need to study biology since eventually it's all just
chemistry anyway. But maybe behind the chemistry it's actually all just
electrical? If that's the case, I'd like a USB port wired in, please[2].

Links:
[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188908-darpas-tiny-implants-will-hook-directly-into-your-nervous-system-treat-diseases-and-depression-without-medication (link)
[2]: http://xkcd.com/644/ (link)

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DARPA develops tiny implants that treat disease without medication RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-17 19:59 +0000
  Re: DARPA develops tiny implants that treat disease without medication Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-18 11:58 +0000
  Re: DARPA develops tiny implants that treat disease without medication Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-09-18 22:13 -0300

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