Q: I hurt my thumb and the orthopedist referred me to a physical therapist. In order to immobilize/rest it, the PT made a brace for me. We also discussed exercises and other things I could do, and I ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

“To me was like knives inside my body—like someone studying me from the inside.” That’s how Noémie Elhadad describes the pain of endometriosis, a condition she has lived with since she was a teenager.

Physiotherapy ultrasound machines are commonplace in medicine and sports injury treatment but limitations with current calibration equipment mean they may be producing inaccurate doses that could lead ...

A new X-ray imaging technique could identify lesions and tumors before ultrasound or MRI can. We all learnt in school that the beams from x-ray machines pass right through soft tissues like skin and ...