CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultrasound experts today urged the health care community to work to expand utilization of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) in order to offer patients broader access to ...

Philip J. Mease, MD: It was 30% in a study in which I was lead author. The study involved 40 different dermatology clinics with dermatologists specializing in psoriasis in North America and Europe.

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A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his ...

An ultrasound scan is one of the main tests doctors use to diagnose cholecystitis. On a scan, clinicians may be able to spot the presence of gallstones, which can cause this condition. Cholecystitis ...

A stretcher races through the entrance of a busy hospital. The car-accident victim lies on top and grimaces in pain. While surface injuries looks gruesome, the real medical danger is invisible – ...

Are we moving closer to the day when diabetes is no longer monitored and managed with blood sugar tests, insulin injections and drug treatments? A GE Research-led team, which includes The Feinstein ...

Joanne is brought into the emergency department by an ambulance at her local community hospital in Oklahoma City. She is having serious trouble breathing. While the attending physician is unsure ...

Engineers and physicians have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart. The portable device, which is roughly the size of a postage ...

The patient, a man in his early twenties, hobbled into the E.R. on a Wednesday morning, anxious and gasping, his shirt covered in blood. Minneapolis in the nineteen-eighties was experiencing an ...

Doctors are increasingly using UCAs for unapproved uses and professional guidelines now support these additional indications, according to Dr. Richard G. Barr, who also spoke during the plenary ...