Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s ...

The Free Press talked to Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, about the nature of ...

All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed left lung and will miss at least two weeks and possibly more, the team announced Thursday. The exact ...

NORFOLK, Va. — For high-risk patients, the most stressful part of a lung scan isn't the test itself—it's the "watch and wait" that comes after. Doctors could see a suspicious lesion on scans but had ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Women’s bodies are different from men’s in ways ...

If every child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presents differently, why does the medical community continue to treat the diagnosis as a single ...

All eyes are on new San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello as he makes the big jump from coaching the University of Tennessee to major league manager despite no previous ...

DENVER — LeBron James didn’t hold back from his retorts over his late-in-the-game elbow injury Thursday night against the Denver Nuggets. The 41-year-old Lakers star, who broke the NBA’s career field ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...