Pope Francis had been suffering from health issues in the weeks before his death, including a more than one-month stay in the ...

Asthma & Immunology. The problem: Lots of ads pitch CT scans for lung-cancer screening. And it would be great if there were a safe, effective way to catch the disease early, because it's still the ...

Was it asthma? A lung infection? Neither Morris or her doctors ... The neurosurgeon said I should have received a CT scan the second time I complained of symptoms because lung tumors hide in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results ...

The safe scan uses inhaled hyperpolarised xenon gas to pick up on lung abnormalities previously ... and four patients with asthma (bottom). Typically magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerised ...

A new CT-scan based risk ... surgery following a CT scan, regardless of the surgical method used," Toppila-Salmi says. In addition, conditions such as asthma and N-ERD increase the risk of ...

More than 100,000 future cancer cases were projected to result from the 93 million CT examinations performed in 2023, according to a study published April 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.  Low-dose CT ...

The radiation from this form of medical imaging may account for 5% of annual cancer diagnoses — a figure that puts it in line with alcohol and obesity as a risk factor.

CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs. The danger is greatest for infants, followed by children and ...