It was Christmas morning in 2018, and Karen was in her kitchen trying to make huevos rancheros. The Mexican breakfast dish was a tradition she always made for the family, but this year it wasn't ...

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 ...

When Joyce Clifton was just 50 years old, she noticed she could no longer write on a chalkboard because of her shaky hands. Joyce and her husband, Chuck, in Hawaii At first, Clifton wasn’t overly ...

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Focused ultrasound subthalamotomy was shown to improve motor features among patients with Parkinson disease who present with asymmetric symptom severity. Focused ultrasound subthalamotomy was shown to ...

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 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 ...

An incisionless surgical procedure that uses focused ultrasound ablation (FUSA) to target the globus pallidus internus of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) significantly reduced tremors and ...

UHS is proud to offer cutting-edge treatment options close to home, including Focused Ultrasound, a minimally invasive procedure for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson’s ...

The other day, Melanie Carlson took her 5-year-old daughter shopping for a bathing suit. Since they couldn’t find a suit in the first store, they stopped by a second. Then, Carlson drove them to a ...

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 ...

Jeff Elias, a neurosurgeon at UVA Health, is part of a team investigating focused ultrasound treatments of Parkinson's disease. (Courtesy: UVA Health) Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of ...