Low-dose CT screening for lung cancer has a value-adding benefit beyond what’s expected of it: The imaging procedure can help with early detection of interstitial lung disease (ILD).

Mentally demanding activities may be neuroprotective and an important element for maintaining a healthy brain into late adulthood, according to findings published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

Hot on the heels of final-draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on screening mammography comes blistering commentary from two Georgetown University professors—one a physician and the other an attorney—taking Congress to task for the way it has acted to implement the recommendations.

Not all patients going online to tap the “wisdom of the crowd” for help with difficult diagnoses find what they seek. But a new study shows that some surely do, coming away with medical guidance more helpful than what they got from their own physicians.

Nothing kills more AANHPIs—that’s the population subset comprising Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders—than cancer. Yet AANHPIs have whopping 30 percent to 40 percent lower incidence and mortality rates than non-Hispanic whites for all cancers combined. 

Citing concerns over attendee safety, the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) has postponed its 2016 annual scientific meeting to an alternate date and time yet to be named.   

Queen Elizabeth I’s famously mysterious advisor John Dee has been demystified, if only slightly, by an x-ray investigation conducted more than four centuries after his death. Or has he? 

A robust, population-based study has revealed that, from 2001 through 2009, the use of PET imaging swelled among patients with resected non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer (CRC).