Today, Dr Zoe helps a reader who suffers from numbness in his fingers following prostate cancer treatment. Q) I GET pins and needles in my fingers and it wakes me up at night. Why? I had treatment ...

Innovations such as fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and fine-needle biopsy (FNB) technologies are enhancing the utility and demand for EUS needles. As healthcare systems worldwide prioritize early ...

Liquid biopsy is one of them. A traditional biopsy usually involves taking a tiny tissue sample from the body to diagnose a disease and to understand the extent of its progression. But liquid ...

The first sign is often from a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. If your PSA level is high, you may get a biopsy to find out whether you have prostate cancer or something else like ...

But after a couple of years of work, xMEMS has arrived at the next generation — ultrasound through a solid-state speaker. This tiny, 1mm-thin speaker is called Cypress, and after listening to it ...

Howard R. Soule, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief science officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, said, "These findings fill a therapeutic gap for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Q: Is it possible to treat prostate cancer with sound waves? A: High-intensity focused ultrasound is an innovative treatment option for men with localized, low to intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

This study aimed to combine these wasp-inspired functionalities into a single biopsy needle by changing the interconnection of the needle segments. The resulting biopsy needle features six parallel ...