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The effects of drugs that treat Alzheimer’s, cancer and other illnesses are often limited by the blood-brain barrier. A small study suggests a way forward.

In the years following her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, Serena Kelly tried more than a dozen medications along with various types of psychotherapy, but nothing seemed to work.

An implanted ultrasound-emitting device helped chemotherapy drugs safely pass into the brains of cancer patients.

A Hospital for Sick Children pediatric neurosurgeon and senior scientist has been recognized for his recent world-first clinical trial successfully delivering chemotherapy to a pediatric brain tumour patient using MRI-guided

A team of Toronto researchers and physicians are the first in the world to use MRI-guided focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapy to treat Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an aggressive and terminal pediatric brain tumour.

Neurosurgeons are using focused ultrasound, a noninvasive brain surgery, to treat essential tremor and other conditions. Here’s how it works.

Canadian physicians have successfully used MRI-guided ultrasound to deliver chemotherapy to an inoperable brain tumour in a child – a world-first for this type of technology.

/PRNewswire/ -- Insightec, a global healthcare company dedicated to using acoustic energy to transform patient care, announced today the first patients have...

Toronto researchers say theyve made a first-in-the-world discovery in the fight against Parkinsons.

"I love to write again. I love to write."That was one of the first tremor-free notes Andy Hodgson wrote in November 2020 after returning home from "life-changing" MRI-guided focused ultrasound