Plantar fasciitis (PF) is one of the most prevalent causes of heel pain, involving inflammation of the plantar fascia leading ...

Ankle swelling, often overlooked, can signal serious underlying health issues like heart, kidney, or liver problems, or ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method from CU Boulder researchers uses sound waves to soften tumors and could be a ...

Patients who received a focused ultrasound treatment to aid drug delivery increased their odds of surviving the deadliest form of brain cancer by nearly 40%, according to a study led by University of ...

It has been a difficult year for Elena Marcu, who learned in February after two biopsies that she had Stage 4 glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer. As part of a clinical trial, Ms. Marcu ...

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound—a noninvasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain—can be safely used in ...

A multicenter clinical study in Austria has shown that a new, highly precise ultrasound approach can successfully target and treat early prostate cancer while preserving patients' quality of life.

Pulsing ultrasound waves through the brain could improve survival after a type of stroke by helping to clear out inflammatory dead blood cells, according to a study in mice. The approach, which ...

For people with pain in the Achilles tendon, the band of tissue connecting the calf muscles to the heel, recovery can be slow and unpredictable. Even with the best available therapy, many continue to ...

Richard J. Price receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center. Sound waves at frequencies above the threshold for human hearing ...