Month: June 2020

The excitement is spreading about MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS), a breakthrough treatment for controlling essential tremor (ET). This noninvasive, outpatient procedure is a great blessing for people with hand tremors that are considered unresponsive to medication. Instead, MRgFUS stops tremors by using sound waves, or sonic energy, to deaden a tiny area in the thalamus. keep reading

It’s a good feeling to have an ally, someone who has your back and is looking out for you. While this is true for individuals and groups, it’s also true for advances in medical technology. Change in medicine is typically slow and frustrating. Therefore, any person or entity that has a stake in a promising keep reading

Uncontrollable hand tremors can become a living nightmare. The most common form of this movement disorder is essential tremor (ET). ET is progressive, meaning tremors will worsen over time. Aggravated shaking demolishes tasks that those with steady hands take for granted. The ability to prepare and eat food, fasten buttons and zippers, write checks or keep reading

Dragnet was a police drama series that ran first on radio, then on TV. It featured Sergeant Joe Friday who occasionally found himself questioning witnesses, many of whom were female and tended to ramble. While Friday never exactly said, “Just the facts, ma’am,” as commonly attributed to him, it’s close enough to his actual words: keep reading