Diagnostics & Imaging

17+ hour, 35+ min ago   (440+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to estimate a person’s age from their retina. To do so, they used images from 71,343 participants in the UK Biobank, a large British medical database. Close-up of an…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (169+ words) starlust.org Ultrasound in space: NASA’s Anil Menon shows how astronauts undergo health checkup aboard the ISS NASA astronaut Anil Menon has shared a glimpse of his work aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that could be a boon for…...

23+ hour, 15+ min ago   (343+ words) FUJIFILM India has installed and commissioned its Echelon Smart MRI at JANSONS HEALTH in Erode, Tamil Nadu, expanding access to advanced MRI diagnostics beyond major urban centres. The installation marks a significant milestone for FUJIFILM India as the company’s first…...

18+ hour, 22+ min ago   (364+ words) The discovery that would reshape cancer treatment began with a noise complaint.In the early 2000s, Zhen Xu, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, was testing high-frequency sound waves on pig hearts when colleagues complained about the noise from…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago   (571+ words) For patients diagnosed with small kidney cancers tucked dangerously close to the organ’s blood vessels, urine-collecting system, or neighboring bowel, treatment options have long been fraught with compromise. Surgery risks sacrificing precious kidney function, while conventional heat-based ablation risks burning…...

21+ hour, 54+ min ago   (540+ words) Computed tomography has long been one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, but a fundamental limitation has always lurked beneath its grayscale images. Conventional CT measures how much X-rays are attenuated as they pass through tissue, a…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (647+ words) For generations, the progress of childbirth has been tracked in a strikingly low-tech way: a clinician’s gloved fingers, inserted repeatedly into the vagina, estimating how far the cervix has opened....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (811+ words) Every few seconds inside a scanning suite, a quiet race unfolds between two forces that pull a medical image apart. On one side is the patient, whose breathing, heartbeat and small involuntary shifts blur the geometry of each frame....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (361+ words) Parotid sialocele is a challenging complication following major salivary gland surgery. Traditional conservative management often fails, while revision surgery carries a high risk of iatrogenic facial nerve injury. This retrospective, single-center case series evaluated the clinical efficacy and safety of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (55+ words) Medical images are often difficult to read, but few imaging modalities test the limits of human and machine perception quite like functional nuclear medicine. Single-photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, bone scintigraphy produces whole-body maps of radioactive tracer uptake that…...