New results from a clinical trial testing a novel ultrasound therapy for hypertension show the experimental treatment can deliver clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure. The treatment is ...

For some, the COVID-19 pandemic might feel far removed from their current day-to-day lives. But others still grapple with long-term health ramifications. After battling COVID-19, Jimmy Strohmaier was ...

Brief pulses of ultrasound delivered to nerves near the kidney produced a clinically meaningful drop in blood pressure in people whose hypertension did not respond to a triple cocktail of medications, ...

A noninvasive ultrasound technique is capable of quickly pulverizing kidney stones, an early study shows -- in what researchers call a first step toward a simpler, anesthesia-free treatment for the ...

The Break Wave system for extracorporeal lithotripsy via ultrasound showed early efficacy with minimal anesthesia in a pilot trial. In a separate trial, ultrasonic propulsion repositioned and ...

I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that ...