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

Ultrasonic therapy often uses targeted ultrasound waves to create cavitation bubbles -- tiny balloons of rapidly oscillating air pockets that stretch nearby cell membranes when they burst. This ...

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.

External ultrasound therapy may be an option for some patients with calcified aortic stenosis who are either poor candidates for TAVR or SAVR or who have other reasons to avoid or prolong valve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cerevast Therapeutics, a 5-year-old Redmond company that’s developing a novel approach for treating stroke patients with ultrasound, has raised $10 million in fresh funding, according to a filing with ...

A new kind of cancer gene therapy can be remotely activated at a specific part of the body. The team developed a version of CRISPR that responds to ultrasound, and demonstrated how it can be used to ...

Professor Zhaohui Tang and Associate Professor Zhilin Liu from the team of Professor Xuesi Chen at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry ...

NISKAYUNA — With promising results achieved in diabetic rats, mice and pigs, General Electric researchers in Niskayuna have begun testing ultrasound waves as a way to prevent or reverse Type 2 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have discovered a way to enhance the effectiveness and safety of sonogenetics or ultrasonic modulation, emerging techniques that use sound waves to ...