A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his ...

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of a continued ...

MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day ...

A noninvasive treatment called high-intensity focused ultrasound helped relieve the shaking, stiffness and pain that accompany Parkinson’s disease.

A skin-mounted ultrasound patch tracks fetal blood flow in real time and may help detect complications in high-risk ...

Philip J. Mease, MD: It was 30% in a study in which I was lead author. The study involved 40 different dermatology clinics with dermatologists specializing in psoriasis in North America and Europe.

A small adhesive patch may soon give doctors a far clearer view of fetal health during pregnancy. Researchers at Stanford ...

Histotripsy is a new, FDA-approved, minimally invasive technique that destroys liver tumors using high-frequency ultrasound waves. For some patients with liver cancer, they could be spared invasive ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach ...