When screening patients for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (CT), raising the nodule size threshold from 5 mm to 7 or 8 mm before starting a more intensive workup could result in fewer ...

Q: I’ve been a smoker since I was 19 years old. Even though I’ve smoked about a pack a day for the past 33 years, I feel pretty healthy. I get regular checkups, which include having a chest X-ray (all ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bettye Givens didn’t know that low-dose CT scans can catch lung cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages. She didn’t know that they can also throw up false positives that lead ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

LOS ANGELES — Advanced CT imaging can reduce deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent among heavy smokers, according to long-awaited results from the first comparison of CT scanning and regular chest ...

Long-awaited results from a big federal study show that screening smokers and former smokers with CT scans cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent. But many questions remain about how ...

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Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

To show the long-term effects of severe Covid on the lungs, the Graphics desk created visual renderings based on data from CT scans. By Vivian Ewing Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, ...

PARIS, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AZmed, one of the leading companies in artificial intelligence (AI) for radiology, announced today the CE marking of AZnod, its first AI tool for computed ...

Benign lung nodules can have a few different causes. These include current and past infections in the lungs and inflammation in the body from a condition like rheumatoid arthritis. A lung nodule is a ...