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New Magnetic Depression Treatment Offers Hope, Questions

By Elaine Grant on Wednesday, January 14, 2009.

Concord Hospital has become one of the first in the country to offer a new treatment for depression. The FDA approved the procedure only this past October.
The treatment, called TMS, delivers powerful magnetic pulses to the brain.
NHPR’s health reporter Elaine Grant explores how TMS works – and whether the relief it offers is worth the high cost.

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