{"id":91635,"date":"2019-06-04T21:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T04:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hi-tech-gadget-will-be-used-to-relieve-severe-headaches-under-raft-of-new-nhs-treatments"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T04:22:30","slug":"hi-tech-gadget-will-be-used-to-relieve-severe-headaches-under-raft-of-new-nhs-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hi-tech-gadget-will-be-used-to-relieve-severe-headaches-under-raft-of-new-nhs-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Hi-tech gadget will be used to relieve severe headaches under raft of new NHS treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hi-tech-gadget-will-be-used-to-relieve-severe-headaches-under-raft-of-new-nhs-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Severe headache sufferers will be given a gadget rather than pills to alleviate the pain, the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/\">NHS England<\/a> announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cluster headaches, which are often mistaken for migraines, are one of the most debilitating conditions known to medical science, with women often describing the pain as worse than childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Now sufferers will be offered a hand-held device that delivers mild electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve to block the pain signals that cause the headaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/06\/04\/hi-tech-gadget-will-used-relieve-severe-headaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe headache sufferers will be given a gadget rather than pills to alleviate the pain, the head of NHS England announced on Wednesday. Cluster headaches, which are often mistaken for migraines, are one of the most debilitating conditions known to medical science, with women often describing the pain as worse than childbirth. Now sufferers will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}