When I set about forecasting the biggest health and wellness trends for 2025, preventative healthcare came up time and again. This is the idea that by being incredibly body literate and taking steps ...

PET scans can light up tumors in the body and help doctors determine if they are cancerous or benign (noncancerous). The results of a PET scan help guide medical decisions. A PET scan is a type of ...

A newer type of prostate cancer scan called 64 Cu-SAR-bisPSMA found more than twice as many cancer spots as a commonly used PSMA PET scan in men whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was rising after ...

Ryan Crownholm, a middle-aged Army veteran with luminous green eyes and a strong jawline, likes to describe himself as a health hacker. He has written on LinkedIn that, after founding and running ...

Pain in your upper right belly a couple of hours after a large or fatty meal is one of the first signs that you may have gallstones. To figure it out, your doctor may want you to have a test called a ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

A 15-minute scan could help diagnose brain damage in babies up to two years earlier than current methods. In a study of over 200 babies at seven hospitals across the UK and the USA, researchers found ...

Research reveals that vision and brain circuits perform a regular background scan, making neurons available in case they are needed to focus on a task – enabling us to pay attention. The work ...