Doctors at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto have recently made a major medical breakthrough: using ultrasound waves they have successful delivered chemotherapy deep into the brain tumor of a cancer patient. The reason that this is such a breakthrough is because of the blood-brain barrier, which normally blocks drugs from entering the…

We’ve recently received a very interesting write-up on rural and remote medicine, as seen through the eyes of a traveling sport medicine physician, Antonio Cogliano.  Dr. Cogliano often travels to remote or third world countries with the sports teams he is involved with, and faces a series of challenges in providing ongoing…

Ultrasound as a visual feedback tool is fast becoming a well used resource in the field of speech language pathology. Pioneers Dr. Penelope Bacsfalvi & Dr. May Bernhardt began doing clinical research using ultrasound in 2000, and Dr. Bacsfalvi has been using it clinically ever since: she completed her doctoral dissertation in…