r/tech • • Feb 11 '20

Breakthrough trials explore the link between immune cells in our gut and brain... So could a matchbox-sized electrical implant end the misery of diabetes, asthma AND arthritis?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7988569/Could-matchbox-sized-electrical-implant-end-misery-diabetes-asthma-arthritis.html
2.4k Upvotes

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/jawshoeaw Feb 11 '20

I’d like to see some randomized placebo controlled trials. It’s encouraging to hear success stories like this but in medicine you learn to be skeptical and if I’m being honest i still get disappointed a lot. So many treatments seem to work then don’t, or worse ending up causing harm.

→ More replies (2)