Category: addiction

In-brain electrodes are the latest weapon against opioid addiction

Post author By Randall
Post date November 5, 2019
Categories In addiction, dbs, deep brain stimulation, fda, medicine, opioids, Science, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is a form of surgery that places electrodes inside the patient’s brain — in this case, in the self-control and pleasure centers. An external device sends electrical pulses to interrupt the patient’s typical brain behavior, such as an addict’s craving a drug or an obsessive compulsive disorder patient’s feeling […]

A public database exposed medical records of 150,000 rehab patients

Post author By Randall
Post date April 19, 2019
Categories In addiction, data, data breach, elasticsearch, exposed, gear, medical records, medicine, Security, shodan, steps to recovery, Tech

[ad_1] Paine notified ElasticSearch, which contacted the owner of the database. The information is no longer publicly accessible, but in a blog post, Paine said to the best of his knowledge, Steps to Recovery has not reached out to the patients. While 150,000 people is a relatively small data leak by today’s standards, exposing health […]