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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a common pathogen that can be transmitted from person to person. Long-term H. pylori infection has been recognized as a Class I human carcinogen. Currently, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a treatment option for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease who have not benefited from medication or are not willing ...