Modern algorithms can now scan thousands of images, pick out anomalies and rank which cases need urgent attention.

Unlike cholesterol or ECG tests, which show indirect signs, the calcium score gives a direct visual measure of the damage already forming in your arteries ...

Stage 2 vaginal cancer involves spread beyond the vaginal wall but not to the pelvic sidewall, with symptoms like abnormal ...

Maria Menounos talked about her experiences with having a meningioma and then a neuroendocrine cancer of her pancreas and the ...

The troubling trend of younger people being diagnosed with cancer. Lung cancer is one we're seeing more of in young people who've never smoked. Christy Houvouras, 37, is one of them. A few months ago, ...

Maida Mangiameli, 75, has defied the odds by surviving over seven years with small-cell lung cancer—a disease with a ...

Defensive practice and over-testing is expensive and can sometimes do harm.

Stage 1 osteosarcoma is usually localized and has not spread to nearby lymph nodes or distant organs. Early-stage disease is ...

"She sees things from a different lens," said Mary Pasquinelli, a nurse practitioner at the University of Illinois Chicago who sought to validate Sybil, a similar model codeveloped by Barzilay that ...

Neuralgic amyotrophy — also called Parsonage-Turner syndrome, paralytic brachial neuritis, and other names — is an ...

Also: women who report swelling or enlargement in the abdomen despite not eating more than usual need to see their doctor ...