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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. A: CT, short for computed ...

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