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

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an incisionless form of brain surgery to treat advanced Parkinson’s disease after successful testing at the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

A scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body, new research suggests. More testing ...

Two new studies have found that using focused ultrasound to open up the blood-brain barrier generated a positive immune response in the brain and allowed for the admission of gene-editing technology.

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 ...

A new, incision-free technique developed at UVA Health to treat debilitating brain lesions called cerebral cavernous malformations, or cavernomas, has shown great promise in early testing, halting the ...

Scientists have found soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound aimed at a place deep in the brain called the insula can reduce both the perception of pain and other effects of pain, such as ...

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus ...