This year, approximately 1,000 Alabama residents will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. With a trending increase in cases for patients under the age of 55, experts at the University of Alabama at ...

If you are a parent, then you probably first laid eyes on your child through an ultrasound procedure—the technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to view soft tissue. It is undeniably one ...

Pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate and is usually found too late — this new test may help change that Getty Researchers have developed an inexpensive blood test that they say can detect p ...

The latest advance from Clevers and his group is the development of a new organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas, offering a clearer view into its early development. The complete structure ...

EUS-FNA denotes endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle aspiration. Panel A shows characteristic high-risk stigmata on imaging studies, including biliary obstruction, main pancreatic duct (MPD ...

In a recent study of 30 participants, researchers applied low-­intens­ity ultrasound waves to a brain region associated with introspection and off-task mind wandering. Participants who underwent ...

FOR A SMALL, blow-dryer shaped organ deep in the abdomen, the pancreas has a lot of power. It's a key player in diabetes, which affects more than 38 million people in the U.S. And that's not the ...

To diagnose any problems associated with the pancreas, several types of tests can be conducted. This includes blood tests, imaging studies, such as a CT scan, MRI, or ultrasound, and pancreatic ...

Pancreatic cancer develops from uncontrolled cell growth in the pancreas. Doctors may use an ultrasound to help detect pancreatic cancer as part of their diagnosis. Symptoms of pancreatic cancer ...

Here, Kanyi Pu and a team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Donghua University in China have used ultrasound for the first time for an effective sonodynamic ...

difficult-to-treat cancers such as pancreatic cancer. In contrast, ultrasound waves can penetrate into deeply located tissues with fewer side effects. Here, Kanyi Pu and a team of researchers from ...