A chest X-ray can help your doctor look for abnormalities in your lungs. If your doctor suspects COPD, they may also order a type of X-ray called a CT scan. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

Lung cancer symptoms a Cleveland Clinic doctor monitors in his own body include a persistent cough, coughing up blood, weight ...

A large government study has found that routine chest X-rays, once a common type of screening, do not prevent lung cancer deaths. The study included more than 150,000 older Americans, with those who ...

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 ...

X-ray dark-field chest imaging – a new technique touted as the most significant advance in standard chest X-ray in 100 years – has shown for the first time that it may help diagnose lung disease in ...

Routine chest X-rays do not prevent lung cancer deaths, not even in smokers or former smokers, according to a big government study challenging a once common type of screening. In the study of more ...

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 ...

Preliminary result of phase II study of megestrol combined with 5-hydroxytryptamine 3 inhibitor and dexamethasone for the prevention of nausea and vomiting induced by high emetogenic chemotherapy.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Point-of-care lung ultrasound is better than chest x-ray for diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia, ...

Texas trauma surgeon Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall says it's a rarity that any of her COVID-19 patients X-rays come back without dense scarring. In one of her Twitter posts, she says "post-covid lungs ...

A major new study, which has recently begun recruiting, is hoped to lead to earlier detection of lung cancers.