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Published: 24 October 2019

With the encouraging completion of a first-in-human feasibility study, French manufacturer Cardiawave presented results from the first 10 patients at large cardiovascular meetings. This innovative start-up’s current clinical trial uses their Valvosoft platform and a completely noninvasive focused ultrasound technique to address aortic heart valve stenosis (narrowing) caused by calcification of the valve leaflets.

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Published: 24 October 2019

A groundbreaking clinical trial for women with nonpalpable breast cancer is now underway at Institut Bergonié in Bordeaux, France. The pilot study is testing the safety and efficacy of a novel focused ultrasound device, called MUSE, that was designed at built by the Focused Ultrasound Laboratory at the University of Utah in collaboration with Image Guided Therapy in Bordeaux.

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Published: 10 October 2019

The first patient has been treated in a US multicenter clinical trial evaluating the safety of using focused ultrasound to enhance the delivery of chemotherapy.

This 20-patient clinical trial is using Insightec’s Exablate Neuro device to temporarily and reversibly open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in glioblastoma (GBM) patients undergoing standard chemotherapy treatment.

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Published: 10 October 2019

Retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers Jonna Mendez and her husband Tony – decorated heroes with more than 50 years of combined service to the United States – joined the Foundation’s Council in February 2014. Before Tony’s unfortunate passing earlier this year due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, he wrote several books including The Master of Disguise, a groundbreaking memoir that looked at the inner workings of the CIA, and three that he co-wrote with Jonna: Spy Dust about their work against the Soviets in Moscow during the Cold War; the autobiographical ARGO, the story of how the CIA used a fake science-fiction movie to rescue Americans from Iran, which became an Academy Award-winning movie (starring Ben Affleck as Tony); and their most recent book just released in May, The Moscow Rules.

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