Alzheimer’s disease can feel like a thief, sneaking in to steal memories, independence, and the moments that matter most. ...

Laurie Sweet answers the question: 'How Is Ultrasound Used During Therapy?' — -- Question: How Is Ultrasound Used For Pain Treatment During Physical Therapy? Answer: Ultrasound is another ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering ...

IMAGINE a medical device that could treat an enormous range of our ills, both big and small. A gadget that showed promise for destroying cancerous tumours or obliterating the body fat associated with ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- United Health Services announced the launch of its Focused Ultrasound Program to treat essential tremor, a movement disorder. UHS said the disorder is common and affects around 10 ...

Ultrasound, once used almost exclusively to take images of the body, is quickly developing into a targeted therapy that can have a potentially life-changing impact on our brains, according to the ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments in the United States for dyskinesia associated with Parkinson's disease.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a new type of nanoparticle designed to improve the effectiveness and safety of ultrasound-based cancer therapies, while also helping to ...

A new kind of cancer gene therapy can be remotely activated at a specific part of the body. The team developed a version of CRISPR that responds to ultrasound, and demonstrated how it can be used to ...

Focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy, a sound wave treatment technology that counts Hong Kong's tycoon Li Ka-shing among its backers, has reached an "inflection" point after 1 million patients worldwide ...

A new ultrasound-based treatment that destroys liver cancer tumours without surgery or radiation will be offered to NHS patients this summer in a European first. The therapy, called histotripsy, is a ...