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GAINESVILLE, Fla. Trainers have used it for decades to help athletes build muscle. Late-night TV commercials hawk it as an effortless flab buster. But a University of Florida engineering researcher says electrical stimulation a simple, decades-old technique to prompt muscles to contract can...Rhode Island Hospital first in US to treat kidney tumor with new device using electrical pulses
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