My doctor recently recommended that I get a cardiac CT calcium scan to help stratify my risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Denise Lee smoked up to two packs a day for 40 years, but when she quit at 54, Denise made one more lifesaving decision. After ...

I lay on the bed of the CT scan at the Heart Hospital of Austin looking up at the ceiling as it moves into the CT tunnel. A voice through the speakers tells me to breathe in, hold my breath, then ...

A young woman who overlooked a crucial symptom was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, began ...

WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has installed a second CT scanner — the Canon Prism — marking a major expansion of the ...

Modern medicine is constantly showing us our guts and bones. Why doesn’t it feel more profound? By B.D. McClay It wasn’t that I thought medical imaging was simple, precisely. I understood that a real ...

In 2018, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). I was a single mother of two daughters—a 4-year-old and a 3-year-old—working full-time as a registered nurse. I have an amazing neurologist who ...

Three months ago, my husband was diagnosed with metastatic squamous cell carcinoma that had originated in his lungs and spread throughout his body. He died last month after a brutal battle with this ...

A single abdominal CT scan can deliver a blast of radiation equal to 90 chest X-rays. I did not know that when I had one eight years ago, but it’s haunted me ever since. Back then I was feeling ...