A chest X-ray can usually detect active tuberculosis (TB) but not latent TB. In either case, you’ll need a sputum test to confirm a diagnosis. Doctors often use chest X-rays to help diagnose active ...

An X-ray can help healthcare professionals find non-small cell lung cancer tumors and gain a deeper understanding of them. The healthcare team will also need other imaging and tests for a complete ...

Traditionally, physicians diagnose pneumonia in children using a chest X-ray, but new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York shows lung ultrasounds may be more effective ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My mother is 86 years old. She is in relatively good health. She recently saw her primary care physician for her routine checkup. Prior to her visit, she had developed cold symptoms.

Small-airway obstruction, which cannot be seen with conventional X-rays, was observed in a virtual chest X-ray enhanced by phase-contrast imaging, according to study results published in Proceedings ...

A 40-year-old smoker may have lungs functioning more like those of a 65-year-old. How do doctors determine lung age?

CHICAGO -- An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm successfully identified never smokers at high risk for lung cancer using existing x-rays in the electronic medical record (EMR), a researcher ...

A scheme which allows patients to self-refer for a lung cancer X-ray is being extended after a successful trial. Somerset NHS ...