Focused ultrasound should be one of the fastest-growing procedures in medicine, according to its supporters.

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Focused ultrasound is a victim of the backlash against expensive medical procedures that earn easy approval from the FDA but not the trust of insurers and doctors.

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Several doctors who invested their savings in opening focused-ultrasound centers have been wiped out.

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Farnsworth co-owns focused-ultrasound centers in Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.

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HSS, by contrast, shoots tightly focused waves of ultrasound (meaning it exceeds the frequency range of human hearing).

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It invented a sophisticated device that emits sound waves in a lethally focused beam of energy but never proved that ultrasound provides long-term relief or is more effective than existing procedures.

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