Bone spurs, also called osteophytes, are outgrowths, or bumps, of bone that develop within joints over a long period of time. Bone spurs in the hand can develop as a result of injury to the finger ...

A bone scan is a nuclear imaging test that can help tell you if you have certain types of bone disease. You may get this kind of scan to see if cancer has spread to your bones or to view how well ...

The doctor might use one of these scans to see your bone during the test: CT, or computed tomography. It's a powerful X-ray that makes detailed pictures of your bones. MRI, or magnetic resonance ...

The mean HU values in three regions of interest (ROI) were measured including right psoas muscle and anterior subcutaneous fat in a soft tissue window for internal calibration, and lumbar vertebrae in ...

Her family doctor referred Brown to get a bone density scan because she is over 60 years old. "The results list my name, birth date, my height, sex, age, my weight and my ethnicity.

The movie adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's debut YA novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is officially on the horizon. After years in the making, it looks like the literary phenomenon is finally ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans are imaging tests that are highly effective at detecting and monitoring bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is a type of urinary tract cancer. It affects the bladder’s ...

A public health alert has been issued by the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for frozen, fully cooked Wegmans chicken nuggets that may be contaminated with ...

An 11-year-old boy underwent a bone single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) scan 3 months after fracturing his right tibia. The standardized uptake values (SUVs) of ...

Blood is made up of blood cells which float in a liquid called plasma. Blood cells are made in the bone marrow. The bone marrow is the spongy material found inside our bones. Most blood cells are made ...