A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

CT scans and MRIs both capture images within your body. CT scans provide pictures of tissues, organs, and skeletal structure, while MRIs are more detailed and can show abnormal tissue. The biggest ...

CT scans identified cancer in 13% of patients with non-specific symptoms, despite a fivefold increase in referrals from GPs from 2012 to 2019. Around 1 in 7 patients were diagnosed with cancer. 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 ...

A 13-year-old boy suffered for three years with severe abdominal pain and vomiting, despite normal medical tests. Neurologist Dr. Sudhir Kumar diagnosed him with abdominal migraine, a neurological ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...