Dr. Neal Kassell is the founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he was co-chair until 2006. He has published more ...

If an effective treatment is available for one common disease in men, and that same treatment is available for a different common disease in women, a logical expectation would be that the treatments ...

After several years of investigating focused ultrasound as a tool in treating Alzheimer's, the field took a big leap forward this year. Elisa Konofagou, PhD, a biomedical engineer who runs the ...

An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is showing promise against glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor, and could prove useful ...

Patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, who received MRI-guided focused ultrasound with standard-of-care chemotherapy had a nearly 40% increase in overall survival in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Focused ultrasound directs powerful beams of energy to specific disease targets in the body. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty ...

Focused ultrasound, the researchers hope, could revolutionize treatment for conditions from Alzheimer's to epilepsy to brain tumors -- and even help repair the devastating damage caused by stroke.

Growing global adoption highlights increasing demand for non-invasive focused ultrasound treatment for chronic pain ...

Essential tremor is a debilitating neurological disorder that can make daily life difficult. Treatments typically include medications with severe side effects or open skull brain surgery. But a new ...

Jeff Elias, a neurosurgeon at UVA Health, is part of a team investigating focused ultrasound treatments of Parkinson's disease. (Courtesy: UVA Health) Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in Alzheimer’s therapy. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...