Brain tumors are usually treated with an intense course of cancer’s Big Three: Surgery, radiation and heavy chemotherapy. Medical device startup Novocure is adding a new treatment option into the mix: ...

Delivering electrical stimulation to the spinal cord through tiny, platinum electrodes could ease the severe motor deficits of Parkinson’s disease as effectively as a much more intrusive procedure ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it will provide its innovative proton beam therapy system for cancer treatment to the Hakuhokai Group ...

Seven hundred patients were part of the study, published Tuesday. — -- Home-based electrical field treatment known as tumor-treating fields, or TTFields, holds promise in helping patients with ...

Electricity has been used to shock hearts, ease pain and even treat depression. Now, apparently, it can even thwart blindness. ScyFix, a Chanhassen start-up, has developed a device that treats ...

Capacitive resistive electric transfer therapy is a non-invasive treatment modality that employs radiofrequency energy at approximately 448 kHz to induce both thermal and non-thermal effects in ...

The article on Feb. 25 on the use of electric shock treatment on special needs children invoked mixed feelings. On a lighter side, I do not have a special needs child, so I cannot oppose the use of ...

There are several forms of treatment that can be helpful if you have a recovery to make. Certain types of treatments are not that popular but are extremely effective that can increase the speed of ...

Scientists have developed a treatment for food cravings that involves sending electric currents through patients’ brains to turn off impulses to eat at the source. The current targets the reward ...