November 27, 2019 - Five Sites Granted Funding for Pain Management Research – and more news

November 27, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Top News | Foundation News | Patient News | Research News | Industry News | Events Five Sites Awarded Funding for Focused Ultrasound Research for Pain Management Investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Utah, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Virginia, and Stanford University received funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative.  READ MORE >  Foundation News Foundation’s Chief Scientific Officer Presents on Focused Ultrasound for Pain Management Jessica Foley, PhD, discussed focused ultrasound's potential for pain management at a conference sponsored by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission. READ MORE >  Blog Post: This Technology Is Going to Change Healthcare John Grisham teamed up with CTA’s Gary Shapiro to discuss how technologies like focused ultrasound can help drive down health care spending. READ MORE > Patient News Focused Ultrasound Gets High School Student Back in the Game The Mercury News reports on quarterback Payton Stokes, who was sidelined by a benign bone tumor until focused ultrasound treatment relieved his pain.   READ HIS STORY >  More Patient News Nebraska City Hospital One of Only 16 in U.S. Offering Incisionless Treatment for Tremors | Omaha World-Herald Research News HistoSonics Hosts First Annual Histotripsy Summit HistoSonics hosted a workshop with the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin where each shared their research and clinical experiences with histotripsy. READ MORE > New Data Published on Durability of Focused Ultrasound for Tremors The journal Neurology published clinical outcome data indicating that essential tremor patients treated with focused ultrasound experienced sustained relief at their three-year follow-up. READ MORE > Meeting Report: SITC Workshop on Intratumoral Immunomodulation On November 7, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) held a one-day workshop on intratumoral immunomodulation in National Harbor, Maryland. READ MORE > Research Roundup Three recent articles demonstrate how focused ultrasound is solving unique problems in preclinical cancer studies.   READ MORE > Visit our free, online research library of focused ultrasound publications. *Login required  More Research News New Data: Uterine Fibroid Patients with Post-operative Artifacts in the Near-field Can be Treated with Focused Ultrasound | International Journal of Hyperthermia Focused Ultrasound Abstracts Requested for Video Journal, JoVE  MRI-guided Focused Ultrasounds Can Safely Open Brain-Blood Barrier in ALS Patients, Trial Shows | ALS News Today  Ultrasound Could Enable Future Treatments for Motor Neurone Disease | Physics World Tracking and Delivering Targeted Cancer Therapeutics with Microbubbles and Sound Waves | Biospace  Sound Waves and Microbubbles to Tackle Tumours | The Times UK Targeted Therapies Can Now Be More Effective with the Use of Ultrasound Technology | The Science Advisory Board Industry News Company Profile: The Reinvention of HistoSonics HistoSonics CEO Mike Blue shares details of the company’s transformative year, including notable investments, a successful clinical trial, and expanded manufacturing of their novel, multi-application platform. READ MORE >  More Industry News CarThera And KIYATEC Collaborate In Effort To Bring Personalized Medicine To Patients Stricken By Brain Cancer | Bloomberg Huons to Sell Insightec's MRI-guided Ultrasound System in Korea | Korea Biomedical Review Do you have news for our newsletter? Tell us about it!  Upcoming Events December 1-6, 2019 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL December 2-6, 2019 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), San Diego, CA January 13-15, 2020 The ICR Conference, Orlando, FL January 23-26, 2020 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV February 13-16, 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA May 17-20, 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound, HICO, Gyeongju, Korea September 10-13, 2020 European Association of Neuro-Oncology Meeting, Glasgow, UK