With the procedure, Tim Andrews, 66, of Concord, New Hampshire, became the fourth person in the world to receive a ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a ...

Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade talked for the first time yesterday about his surgery for kidney cancer in December 2023.

A new paper by a team of Concordia researchers from the departments of Biology and Physics proposes a novel method of fighting cancer tumors that uses ultrasound-guided microbubbles - a technology ...

Ultrasound-guided microbubbles can enhance the immune response against tumors by increasing T cell permeability, allowing them to secrete cytokines despite the tumor's suppressive environment.

But after a couple of years of work, xMEMS has arrived at the next generation — ultrasound through a solid-state speaker. This tiny, 1mm-thin speaker is called Cypress, and after listening to it ...

Delray Medical Center cut the ribbon on its newest high-tech machine last week that targets brain areas to treat movement disorders such as essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease.

FDA approval of Recor’s Paradise ultrasound renal denervation (uRDN) was announced by Recor and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd., on November 7, 2023. Recor noted it has initiated ...

The device delivers ultrasound energy to the patient’s pancreas and generates localized heat of up to 100 degrees Celsius that destroys cancer cells in the organ. Other types of ultrasound waves ...