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 ...

A closer examination of the common chest X-ray could reveal osteoporosis in older patients not previously diagnosed with the brittle-bone disease, according to a study. Canadian researchers said they ...

X rays - what patients need to know fluoroscopy, which enables the observation of motion within the body and certain diagnostic and treatment procedures; ...

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 ...

WITH the increased emphasis on the x-ray film as a means of diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis, less and less has appeared in current literature about possible diagnostic errors. In spite of the fact ...