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 ...

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

Your doctor has several ways to try to diagnose your heart disease. One of those is a chest X-ray. You don’t need to do anything to get ready for it. But you do need to let the technician know if you ...

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks the lung’s arteries. Blood clots do not show on chest X-rays. However, these X-rays may help doctors rule out other health conditions with similar ...

The drive to test healthy people for common cancers rests on the idea that finding malignancies early can trigger life-saving treatment. But the evidence that some of the tests will actually reduce ...

Pneumonia is a common disease, affecting 5 million Americans per year, and is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. Patient survival improves significantly when pneumonia is diagnosed ...

Standard healthcare guidelines suggest that adults be regularly screened for the likelihood that they’ll develop atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—which can lead to heart attack, stroke and other ...

Using an annual chest X-ray to screen for a deadly disease such as lung cancer might seem to make some sense. But the tactic simply does not save lives. The findings allow researchers to move to the ...

In patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), low-dose CT achieved higher sensitivity than chest x-ray for detecting lung metastases and second primary lung cancer, but patients ...

Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 104, No. 3 (2021), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic spreads around the world, the demand for imaging examinations increases ...