Sara Adair knew she was at risk for a life-threatening aortic dissection after her father and sister experienced the same ...

DISEASE STARTS ON YOUR PLATE, CARDIOLOGIST SAYS — HERE'S WHAT TO CHANGE The CAC score is a specialized CT scan that measures calcium buildup in the walls of the heart’s arteries, according to ...

Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them to small amounts of radi ...

Braces and fillings are OK for a CT scan, but you should not wear a retainer. Doctors use coronary CT angiography, also called a coronary CTA, to view the blood vessels in your heart. In ...

People with intermediate-risk scores on coronary artery calcium testing who received statins and intensive health coaching ...

The rules, which began rolling out in January, come as researchers raise concerns that excessive CT scan radiation may ...

Dr. Rubin is particularly proud of a series of AI-enabled projects that Peter Munk Cardiac Centre research­ers are working on ...

That buildup can be detected through a coronary calcium scan — essentially a CT scan of your heart. It's a noninvasive imaging test that takes only a few minutes. The scan produces a calcium ...

The imaging tool used to diagnose bone injuries, cancer and other diseases may expose patients to unnecessarily high ...

Adair was sent for a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis, then underwent open-heart surgery performed by cardiac surgeon Dr. Hirohisa Ikegami. "I know it was the ultrasound that I had in the ...