A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

BUFORD, Ga. - Jeff Reid says he got the first hint something was wrong in early 2023. "I started to feel discomfort in my abdomen, and, you know, a loss of appetite," Reid remembers. His doctor ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Over 800,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer every year worldwide, and it accounts for more than 700,000 cancer deaths each year. Traditional treatment ...

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...

UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...

Histotripsy is a new, FDA-approved, minimally invasive technique that destroys liver tumors using high-frequency ultrasound waves. For some patients with liver cancer, they could be spared invasive ...

SuperSonic Imagine, the highly innovative medical imaging company that invented ShearWave™ Elastography, has applied this revolutionary technology to liver imaging, possibly reducing the need for many ...

Cheri Roper felt the lump in her breast. She had waited to get her annual mammogram because as a woman with dense breasts, her mammogram would get flagged and she would need to get an ultrasound to be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A doctor at an ...