World first: Nir Lipsman and colleagues have visually demonstrated that a cancer therapy can cross the blood–brain barrier. (Courtesy: Kevin Van Paassen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) For the ...

Mercy Medical Center is offering a new, noninvasive treatment option for men with localized prostate cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound, also known ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Mercy Medical Center has introduced a new non-invasive treatment for men with localized prostate cancer ...

In a first-in-world clinical trial, researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, have demonstrated that magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound can be used to safely ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a treatment option for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease who have not benefited from medication or are not willing ...

Focused ultrasound therapy, which focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely into the body, is a procedure that alleviated my Parkinson’s disease-associated tremors and gave me and my family our ...

Neurologist Sun Bomin’s mother led him to believe that Alzheimer’s disease might not be incurable after all. On January 21, ...

Greek scientist Elisa Konofagou, PhD, is a pioneer in the development of ultrasound method for diagnosis and treatment of ...

In recent years, a new treatment strategy known as focal therapy (partial gland ablation) has emerged for prostate cancer considered to be "intermediate risk"—mostly, small tumors confined to one area ...

Dublin, March 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Therapy Market (by Application and Region), Company Profiles, Product Analysis & Recent Development of ...

Inspired by changes observed during his mother’s treatment, a neurologist is testing ultrasound as a standalone therapy for Alzheimer’s, a departure from mainstream research and one still shrouded in ...

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can help some men with prostate cancer avoid surgery or radiation. In recent years, a new treatment strategy known as focal therapy (partial gland ablation) ...