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 ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Sixty-nine patients with Parkinson's disease received focused-ultrasound treatment in a randomized trial. Almost 70% responded favorably to the treatment. Thirty-nine of the ...

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation, based in Virginia, hailed his procedure as a "key landmark event" in the evolution of ultrasound as a noninvasive treatment for brain cancer, an alternative to ...

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 ...

The findings of a major international trial to test a high-tech, scalpel-free approach to treating movement problems caused by Parkinson’s disease have been published in the prestigious New England ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – One million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease. Medications can help with the symptoms, and for some patients, deep brain stimulation, or DBS, works to ...

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GW Hospital is proud to be the first adult-care hospital in the metropolitan Washington–Northern Virginia region to add MRI-guided focused ultrasound to its intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

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ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Patients with tremors or Parkinson’s disease now have another treatment option available in Southwest Virginia. An outpatient procedure known as focused ultrasound aims to ...

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation, based in Virginia, hailed his procedure as a "key landmark event" in the evolution of ultrasound as a noninvasive treatment for brain cancer, an alternative to ...