You will meet with one of our care team nurses to prepare you for your focused ultrasound. Your nurse will perform the following steps before your surgery: Fully shave and clean your head Take your ...

This clinical trial will determine whether focused ultrasound can safely and effectively treat metastatic brain tumors when ...

Researchers from Rice University and Vanderbilt University have made significant advancements in the fight against prostate cancer. They have shown that combining a small-molecule therapy called tumor ...

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GW Hospital is proud to be the first adult-care hospital in the metropolitan Washington–Northern Virginia region to add MRI-guided focused ultrasound to its intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

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) ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

As these systems evolve, I believe therapeutic ultrasound is poised to become medicine's next general-purpose platform.

One in eight men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. Surgery to treat the disease can lead to unwelcome side effects. A minimally invasive alternative that avoids surgery is now available ...

Parkinson's disease is no longer viewed as a faraway neurological ailment buried in textbooks. More than 10 million people ...

Open surgery often involves a trade-off between the benefits of a treatment and the risks that come with such invasive procedures. Take the removal of uterine fibroids. Conventional surgery to remove ...