Consumers’ familiarity with a medical imaging test is directly correlated with the likelihood they will agree to the test when recommended by a physician, according to a Siemens Healthcare news ...

Improved medical imaging tests give doctors a better look inside patients' bodies and help them make earlier and more accurate diagnoses, but the radiation exposure can sometimes outweigh the benefits ...

Recent trends of attempting to self-diagnose a medical condition based on online searches and without a professional medical expert can be harmful. Advances in technology have changed how and what ...

If you need medical imaging tests done, you may wonder how much an MRI, CT scan, or other imaging test costs and how these tests differ. Hospitals and medical facilities negotiate the prices of ...

Leading physician groups ID unnecessary medical tests and procedures. April 4, 2012— -- intro:A routine visit to the doctor's office can bring up a laundry list of medical tests, all designed to ...

"Following standard angiography, microvascular angina was commonly misdiagnosed as noncardiac chest pain," he added.

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

A breast scan for detecting cancer takes less than a minute using an experimental system that combines photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging, according to a study in IEEE Transactions on Medical ...

Uterine cancer starts in the uterus. Doctors can order several tests, including blood and imaging tests, to diagnose and monitor the progression of this cancer. Cancer can form in two parts of the ...

Blindly increasing access to medical tests will lead to wasted resources, higher anxiety among patients, and, in some ...