Every year, heart disease claims more than 17 million lives around the world. It remains the top cause of death, and for many ...

The 18th-century mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler, dubbed the "Air-Dried Chaplain," was preserved using a unique embalming ...

Annual whole-body, low-dose computed tomography (WBLDCT) can improve the management of smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.

Emergency services discovered a body believed to that of the woman about an hour later after being called to a car fire roughly a 10 minute drive away in Beverly Hills. "This is just horrific.

Philadelphia police are investigating a man's death after his body was discovered in the Schuylkill River early Friday morning. Police said officers were called to the 200 block of the South ...

When Nicole Micheroni, a Massachusetts-born immigration attorney, opened her inbox and saw an email from the Department of Homeland Security telling her she would need to leave the country ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of ...

Considering a trendy whole-body CT scan after hearing celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Jason Bateman tout their benefits? Weigh the cancer risk from the scan’s radiation before ...