A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

Many patients with concussion have normal CT scans and are discharged from the hospital without follow-up. But a blood test that is currently under development and costs a fraction of the price of a ...

Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. One of the main reasons that health care providers order a ...

VIENNA — Some patients who had mild COVID-19 infection during the first wave of the pandemic and continued to experience postinfection symptoms for at least 12 months after infection present abnormal ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes symptoms such as anosmia, coughing, headaches to more deadly results such as organ failure and lung damage. Recently, 'long-COVID' has come to the media's ...

A 13-year-old boy suffered for three years with severe abdominal pain and vomiting, despite normal medical tests. Neurologist ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008;9(6):567-572. In our study, 75% of initially abnormal cranial CTs showed evidence of diffuse edema, as evidenced by loss of gray-white differentiation, and 50% showed ...

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that overdoses of radiation to more than 400 patients undergoing CT scans of their heads were due to operator error and ...

Radiologists accurately detected pneumonia in low-dose scans cleaned up by AI Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT ...