The best white noise machines mask distractions, use screen-free controls, and offer white, pink, and brown noise options to lull you to sleep.

An imaging test could safely halve the number of people who need a biopsy for suspected prostate cancer following inconclusive or reassuring results from an MRI scan, new research has found.

CT and PET scan machines will be installed at Cornell Ruffian, thanks to a $2 million donation from NYRA; the goal of the ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

A PSMA PET scan found more recurrent prostate cancer at low PSA levels than a standard scan, helping guide more potentially curative treatment decisions. A newer type of prostate cancer scan called 64 ...

In amyloid PET, visual and quantitative reads are at odds 6 percent of the time. In some instances, regional accumulation might be to blame. People with discordant scans accumulated amyloid faster ...

At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Jennifer Specht, MD, of the University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, presented results from the ECOG-ACRIN FEATURE trial, a phase II ...

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a diagnostic tool that examines body tissue functioning, such as blood flow, oxygen use, and sugar metabolism, to help doctors diagnose and treat disease.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Ascension Sacred Heart Bay is expanding its cancer care with the addition of a PET CT scanning machine on its campus, located right next to the cancer care center.

If you’ve ever had a PET scan, you know it’s an ordeal. The scans help doctors detect cancer and track its spread, but the process itself is a logistical nightmare for patients. It starts with fasting ...