Ultrasound opens the brain’s barrier to Alzheimer’s drugs in tiny trials
About 260 people with Alzheimer’s have had the procedure across 27 studies, none of them randomized, and the most striking result so far comes…
Light-made ultrasound tracked blood pressure at the wrist in two volunteers
Technion engineers used laser pulses to make an artery send out ultrasound, then read its width with one tiny detector, within about 4 mmHg…
A magnolia compound shielded hearing in mice given cisplatin chemotherapy
Northwestern mice with breast tumors lost about 24 dB of high-pitch hearing on cisplatin alone and no significant amount when honokiol came first.
An Arctic internet cable picked up bowhead whale calls for the first time
A Cornell bioacoustician turned a working fiber-optic line off Utqiaġvik, Alaska, into a listening array and found bowhead calls in terabytes of data.
FDA authorizes focused ultrasound that closes varicose veins through the skin
Theraclion’s Sonovein won a De Novo authorization on November 4, backed by a 70-patient, single-arm trial that reported 96.8% of treated veins closed at…
Shockwave therapy probably eases frozen shoulder pain, but only short term
A BMJ review of 189 trials and 12,988 adults found pulses of sound cut early pain by about two points out of ten, with…
A 366-patient trial tests ultrasound that helps chemotherapy reach pancreatic tumors
The Korean company IMGT enrolled its first US patient at the University of Virginia this month, after a 30-patient pilot too small to settle…
Histotripsy shrank month-old vein blockages by 59% in three pigs
A Chicago and Michigan team built scarred, collagen-heavy clots in pig leg veins, then broke them up with focused sound, in a six-animal pilot.
Routine blood-count inflammation scores ran higher in adults with hearing loss
In 7,920 US adults aged 40 to 85, five of six inflammation scores taken from ordinary blood counts were modestly linked to hearing loss.
People who struggle to hear speech in noise have slightly thinner retinas
In 32,613 UK adults, each decibel of worse speech-in-noise hearing went with a retina about 0.2 micrometers thinner, a link too small to use…
Histotripsy breaks up liver tumors with sound, and the trials show where it stands
The pivotal trial hit 95% of its targets, but its one-year tumor control reads 63% or 90% depending on how the scans are judged.
A focused ultrasound epilepsy trial at UNC reports its first big drop
A 10-patient phase 1 study is aiming sound beams through the skull at seizure tissue, and one man went from about 85 seizures a…
A Washington concert pairs Beethoven with brain scans this month
PostClassical Ensemble and a Johns Hopkins brain researcher stage Your Brain on Music at the university’s Bloomberg Center on November 16 and 17.
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