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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 ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and behavior studies have linked awareness to certain neural patterns, but ...

Essential tremor affects millions, making even simple tasks like eating or writing a challenge. While medications can help, they do not work for everyone. Neurosurgeon Shervin Rahimpour, MD, explains ...

Kendra Wetuski first noticed subtle shaking in her hands and balance issues. A neurologist diagnosed her with essential tremor, a movement disorder that causes involuntary shaking, most often in the ...

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 ...

In recent years, a new treatment strategy known as focal therapy (partial gland ablation) has emerged for prostate cancer considered to be “intermediate risk” — mostly, small tumors confined to one ...

Control bubble movement to overcome the shock scattering effect present in existing focused ultrasound technology. Applicable in non-invasive precision surgery where bio-tissues can be finely removed ...

Yoav Medan, MD, vice president and chief systems architect at InSightec, presented the company’s MR guided focused ultrasound at the 2011 TEDMED conference, according to a MedGadget report. The ...

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In A Nutshell Tiny glow-in-the-dark particles injected into the bloodstream light up on command when a focused sound beam is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research outlines how focused ultrasound could reveal which brain regions cause conscious perception in healthy humans.