When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely. Leaving behind even a microscopic cluster of malignant cells can be the ...

Low-dose chest CT for lung cancer screening provides the opportunity to simultaneously screen patients for osteoporosis, detecting notably higher rates of osteoporosis in men than the traditional tool ...

East Meadow-based Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) received an anonymous $1 million donation to advance women’s health. The gift, which was secured by NUMC Board of Directors Chair Stuart ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

A rare type of cancer that begins in the bones, bone cancer, or bone neoplasm, is known to be fatal, with a five-year relative survival rate of 68.2 percent. According to the American Cancer Society’s ...

Computed tomography (CT) examinations (known more commonly as a “CT scan” or “CAT scan”) incorporate a series of x-ray images taken of areas inside the body and use a computer to create a ...

Professionals at REMS SW Ultrasound are taking the guesswork out of your bone health journey. REMS SW Ultrasound manager Jolene Davis stopped by New Mexico Living to talk about their technology that ...

A politician has said 270 hospital patients being recalled for bone scans was another example of "health inequalities" in ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of ...