Abstract: A medical device includes: one or more stimulation leads configured to stimulate at least a person's vagus nerve to treat, via the stimulation of the person's vagus nerve, both obesity and one or more medical conditions comorbid with the obesity; and a controller coupled to the one or more stimulation leads and configured to control and drive the stimulation provided by the one or more stimulation leads.

Abstract: An electrode that includes an elongate lead body and a nerve cuff. The nerve cuff may include a biologically compatible, elastic, electrically insulative cuff body configured to be circumferentially disposed around a nerve, first and second relatively wide electrically conductive contacts carried by the cuff body that are spaced from one another in the length direction and that extend in the width direction to such an extent that they extend completely around the cuff body inner lumen when the cuff body is in the pre-set furled shape, and a plurality of relatively narrow electrically conductive contacts carried by the cuff body that are spaced from one another in the width direction and are located between the first and second relatively wide electrically conductive contacts.

Abstract: The invention is a hollow tube electrode inserter for inserting an electrode such as a Memberg electrode in living tissue. The inserter has a longitudinal slot that accepts the electrode into the hollow center of the tube inserter. The slot is offset at least once forming one or more retainer tabs that assure retention of the electrode in the inserter during insertion of the electrode in living tissue.