A pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic shares the lung cancer warning signs he looks for in his own body. The deadly disease ...

For people who worry they might have heart disease - there's now a way to get some peace of mind without a doctor's referral. It's an X-ray heart scan that rates the risk for heart disease. News on 6 ...

The University of California, Berkeley’s July Wellness Letter contained an important article: “Should You Worry About CT Scans?” X-rays were invented some 120 years ago, and they clearly improved ...

Lung nodules are clusters of cells found during an x-ray or CT scan that appear as more dense or white spots in the lungs.

An MRI takes pictures using magnetic waves, not radiation. X-rays and CTs (also called CAT scans) both use radiation, although the levels in a CT can be 50 or more times higher than in an X-ray. That ...

You go to your GP with low back pain. She organises an MRI scan to check if you have a slipped spinal disc. Your spine is fine, but the radiologist notices an abnormality in one of your ovaries. A ...

Patients are being put at risk because of blunders linked to NHS imaging services, a damning new report suggests. Failures associated with X-rays and scans mean that some patients are not being told ...