Ultrasound works by sending sound waves through the body. Doctors can recommend ultrasound therapy to treat pain. It may work best alongside other treatments. Many people know ultrasound as an imaging ...

Patients with acute intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) have better short-term outcomes with ultrasound-facilitated, catheter-directed fibrinolysis plus heparin-based anticoagulation compared ...

World first: Nir Lipsman and colleagues have visually demonstrated that a cancer therapy can cross the blood–brain barrier. (Courtesy: Kevin Van Paassen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) For the ...

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 ...

Cold therapy is hot right now. With talks about firm, plump skin trending, cold therapy (also known as cryotherapy) is a must-try service to improve elasticity, smooth wrinkles, and tighten skin.

Substance use disorder afflicts many Americans — in 2021, 46.3 million people in the United States age 12 or older were addicted to alcohol or drugs such as opioids and stimulants. Now scientists are ...

Ultrasound therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It uses ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, which can help with drug delivery and may also reduce plaques from ...

Ultrasound, the decades-old technology known for giving early glimpses of unborn babies, could hold a key to a problem that has long challenged drug developers: getting medicines to hard-to-reach ...

Combining an existing small-molecule protein therapy called tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) ...

A project at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has used ultrasound to enhance the effects of photothermal therapy (PTT). Published in Advanced Optical Methods ...