Minneapolis-based Medtronic announced Friday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its MRI-guided laser ablation technology for use in a study regarding epilepsy. Visualase is currently ...

Ken Christiansen's first seizures, which occurred more than a decade ago, were so powerful that they forced him from his bed during the night. He would wake up on the floor, confused and exhausted, ...

Laser interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) is safe and effective for treating both gliomas and metastatic brain tumors, including those that are recurrent or deep and inoperable, new research shows. A ...

"Deep-UV ablation occurs only at the tissue surface and is therefore far less sensitive to beam focus variations," commented the project. "The shallow penetration of deep-UV radiation into the tissue ...