"Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, surgeon Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths."
Yoav Medan explains 12 minutes into the following clip that doing this in the US is very difficult because we need a collective will or national goal to make this happen because of regulation and the amount of money needed for the trials to make it happen. This petition is to request the White House to make this a priority to potentially help improve the life of millions of people.
Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lA-M3zbdU