Dr. Isaac Moss, an orthopedic surgeon at UConn Health, can see his patient’s spinal column during surgery without cutting the back open or even having to look at a two-dimensional X-ray on a screen.

give doctors a clear idea of what's going on inside our bodies. As patients, we should follow their lead. We ought to have a clear picture, too, of what a scan can and can't do -- before we undergo it ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - When someone has all the signs of acute appendicitis, waiting to get a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis is not a good idea, researchers report. Compared with a ...

A new CT-scan based risk score facilitates the identification of patients at risk of revision endoscopic sinus surgery due to chronic rhinosinusitis. This allows for early prediction of disease ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Rhode Island Hospital is now offering cutting-edge robot-assisted surgery for lung biopsies. This is a perfect option for those whose lung cancers are detected very early on ...

Ordering special heart scans before a major surgery to gauge risks may be unnecessary, a new study suggests. Researchers found that surgeons can instead estimate patients' risk of heart attack or ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - The chance of having an appendix removed unnecessarily has plummeted since 1996 in the United States, possibly because more doctors are using CT scans to confirm appendicitis ...

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to ...