One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the ...

Hong Kong engineers have developed an AI-powered, metamaterial-based ultrasound lens that can visualise cardiac valve ...

For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

A severe case of COVID-19 or influenza could increase the risk of lung cancer later on, according to new research. Scientists discovered that serious viral infections can alter immune cells in the ...

HOUSTON — Full-body MRI scans are gaining popularity as a form of proactive health screening promoted by influencers and celebrities online. For one Houston father, the scan revealed a hidden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We spoke with three major companies that offer such testing – Function (which recently acquired Ezra), Prenuvo and SimonMed – and ...

Full-body MRIs are all the rage. Celebrities and influencers tout the benefits of such scans that could find asymptomatic aneurysms and cancers lurking in your body. Sometimes, they're life-saving.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body—including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that ...

Doctors may soon be able to tell just how sick a heart failure patient really is by using a routine MRI scan, thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia. People with heart failure often ...

The UAB Center for Lung Analytics and Imaging Research (CLAIR), in collaboration with the Research MRI Core (RMRIC), has successfully performed the first Xenon-129 MRI lung imaging at UAB. This ...