For roughly 20 years, Ellen Gruebel has been unable to apply her own make-up, cook and eat her favorite meals or sign her name. Pouring coffee was out of the question. All these daily activities were ...

Static ultrasound guidance is used to select and mark the site of needle insertion immediately before the procedure takes place. Dynamic ultrasound guidance, in contrast, is used to directly visualize ...

Precisely delivered ultrasound could be an effective treatment for prostate cancer, with high-frequency sound waves heating and killing off cancer cells, a new study says. The treatment killed off all ...

About 10 million Americans suffer from a tremor disorder such as Parkinson's disease. Insightec is an Israeli company backed by the Koch brothers that has developed a focused ultrasound technology to ...

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

Prostate cancer can cause some lower urinary tract symptoms such as frequency, urgency, hesitancy, terminal dribbling and an overactive bladder. Localised prostate cancer is confined to the prostate ...

A multicenter clinical study in Austria has shown that a new, highly precise ultrasound approach can successfully target and treat early prostate cancer while preserving patients' quality of life.

A new Alzheimer’s therapy has shown potential in the first human trials. Researchers at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) found that by pairing focused ultrasound ...

Ultrasound (US) is a very helpful clinical tool in rheumatology due to its low cost, portability, and accessibility for point ...

E85 GTS, the new cart-based ultrasound system that Esaote, a leading Italian company in medical imaging innovation, presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), held in Vienna from 4th to ...