An analysis of 1,600 women with BRCA 1/2 mutations suggests that exposure to chest X-rays may increase the risk of breast cancer, and that exposure before the age of 20 may be linked to particularly ...

Having a chest X-ray can be a valuable tool for your doctor to help diagnose an illness. It can however be misleading if it is used alone rather than with other tools to make that diagnosis. Having a ...

Dr. John Boehmer answers the question: 'Can X-rays Help Diagnose Heart Failure?' — -- Question: Does a chest X-ray help diagnose heart failure, and what else might it tell my doctor? Answer: A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When assisted by artificial intelligence, physicians achieved a higher diagnostic accuracy in interpreting chest ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Clinicians usually use a chest X-ray to make a diagnosis, like pneumonia or a lung mass,” Michael T. Lu, MD, ...

Women with chest pain but without coronary artery disease are at an elevated risk for cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke, new research shows. Many physicians are presented with the ...

X-ray dark-field chest imaging – a new technique touted as the most significant advance in standard chest X-ray in 100 years – has shown for the first time that it may help diagnose lung disease in ...

Just as many women are unaware of some of the vague signs of a heart attack, the same knowledge gap exists for some medical ...