If you’re not sure how to address your health problem, email me for some advice at [email protected]. Here’s a selection of what readers have asked this week… Q: A CHEST X-ray found ...

Doctors do not use chest X-rays to diagnose asthma. However, you may require a chest X-ray if you’re in the hospital or emergency department because of a severe asthma attack. It can help ...

Adverse effects from radiation dose absorbed in diagnostic practice are rare. For example, the radiation dose absorbed from a simple X ray examination such as a chest X ray (radiograph) or an X ray of ...

Veterinarians use X-rays and other types of medical imaging to see structures inside the body so they can diagnose and treat ...

Researchers have announced results from a new search at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European ... a particle which was proposed to solve a major problem in particle physics: why ...

Special X-ray equipment creates images of the structures ... Generally, the medical benefit you get from the scan outweighs the odds of any problem you might have in the future.