A coronary artery calcium scan is a quick and painless scan of the heart. Doctors are looking for calcium and plaque buildup in the arteries, the root cause of heart disease and heart attacks.

In the brain, Alzheimer’s is characterized by two proteins, amyloid beta and tau, that become dysfunctional, forming plaques ...

Medical imaging contains a veritable wealth of information that is often missed. One way this can change is for patients to ask their doctors what more they can learn from their image results.

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

Scans that make prostate cancer cells glow can eliminate the need for invasive biopsies and cut false positive—and they're ...