{"id":20888,"date":"2023-02-14T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20888"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:19:29","slug":"lasers-robots-and-tiny-electrodes-are-transforming-treatment-of-severe-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20888","title":{"rendered":"Lasers, robots, and tiny electrodes are transforming treatment of severe epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By John Hamilton on February 14, 2023 for NPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Tom&#8217;s epileptic seizures could no longer be controlled with drugs, he started considering surgery.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/02\/14\/1156547759\/lasers-robots-and-tiny-electrodes-are-transforming-treatment-of-severe-epilepsy\">Here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Hamilton on February 14, 2023 for NPR When Tom&#8217;s epileptic seizures could no longer be controlled with drugs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[464,69],"class_list":["post-20888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology","tag-epilepsy","tag-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}