Uterine Fibroids
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MR guided Focused Ultrasound in
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• Center For Women's Care Offers Fibroid Treatment New To Atlanta, FDA Says Proven Noninvasive Ultrasound Treatment Offers Significant Advantages, PRWEB, April 15, 2008.
• Non-invasive treatment for fibroids, abc11 TV.com, April 5, 2008.
• New Non-Invasive Option Available to Treat Fibroid Tumors, WRAL.com, March 20, 2008.
• Questions About a New Fix for Fibroids, Q&A with Millie Behera, MD, Duke Medicine HealthLine, February 20, 2008.
• Ultrasound eases fibroid agony - New tumor treatment lets some avoid hysterectomies, February 14, 2008.
• Non-Invasive Fibroid Treatment Now Available at Duke, First in North Carolina, February 14, 2008.

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• InSightec Announces Change to European CE Mark for ExAblate 2000 in Uterine Fibroids, October 16, 2007

• Targeted treatment - MR-guided focused ultrasound speeds recovery for symptomatic uterine fibroid, Medical Imaging, August 2007

• New, Non-Surgical Procedure Targets Fibroids, NBC 6, August 15, 2007

• CNN Health - no scalpel surgery instead of hysterectomy
  5 operations you don't want to get -- and what to do instead, CNN Health magazine, July 27, 2007

• Pregnancy Following MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for a Uterine Fibroid, new published paper in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, June 26, 2007

• Your guide to fibroid fixes, Health Magazine, June 6, 2007

• Enhanced MR-guided focused ultrasound improves treatment of uterine fibroids Recent studies show that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a more effective treatment option for a broader population of uterine fibroid sufferers, San Diego, USA, May 17, 2007

• Fibroids embolization and focused ultrasound - pros and cons of these minmally invasive options, Article focuses  on women's alternative options for treating fibroids - Contemporary OB/GYN , April, 2007

• Uterine fibroid procedures cost society more than $10,000 per patient each year, even when a woman doesn't have surgery, U.S. health economists say. - poster presented at annual meeting of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, San Diego, May 9. 2007

• Uterine Leiomyomas: MR Imaging-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery - Results of Different Treatment Protocols, recently published in Radiology, April, 2007

• MRgFUS Master Plan - reimbursement changes, hope that payors will recognize the benefits of this uterine fibroid treatment, report in Imaging Economics, April 2007

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