A woman who survived a cardiac arrest later found to have been caused by a medical dye was fatally given the same substance ...

Explore why whole-body scans attract investors while doctors warn against them due to overdiagnosis and lack of evidence.

What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now comb ...

It has long been known that smoking cigarettes is a leading cause of lung cancer. But what might not be as obvious is that cigarette smoking can also lead to seemingly unrelated types of cancer, like ...

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer ...

For doctors, this means constantly balancing between what is visible and what might be missed. Even subtle differences in a scan can determine whether cancer is detected early or overlooked entirely.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those ...

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those abnormalities could be signs of other ...

Single-center, cross-sectional study of 200 paired LUS-CT examinations. LUS was performed within 12 h, scanning six zones per hemithorax and classifying findings into A-lines, C1 (pneumonia), C2 ...

It was just a small spot deep inside the right lung, but over a few years it began to change. As it grew larger than a quarter and began to take on a fearsome appearance, the patient’s doctors worried ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body's ...