Older smokers and former smokers will be invited to have their lungs scanned under a new screening programme the NHS is rolling out.
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Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’.
The growth and decline of the human brain mapped in an ambitious global project.
Studying the lower back allows researchers to understand how the species’ anatomy was adapted for different kinds of movement.
On Oct. 1, 1971, Godfrey Hounsfield’s invention took its first pictures of a human brain, using X-rays and an ingenious algorithm to identify a woman’s tumor from outside of her skull.
While we know that most chameleons have such a prehensile tail, it’s not yet clear how it works and what makes it simultaneously so flexible and strong.
This is a crucial dinosaur for palaeontologists; the variety of fossils available means researchers can study the species’ growth through its whole life span.
CT scans of the mummy revealed new injuries.
Through science, art and technology, we are able to reconstruct the faces of the dead based on their remains. The researcher who did this work for descendants in Sutherland explains the process.
Low-dose CT scans can detect lung cancer in smokers and former smokers at an early and sometimes treatable stage. Why are so few smokers and former smokers getting them?
The more we know about the animals that lived during this time, the more we can start to comprehend how species react and recover after an extinction event.
The team found evidence of about 50 lions that had been injured or killed by porcupines since the 17th century.
Museums’ collections are a priceless resource for scientists, but they’re not easy to access. Digitizing specimens – like the 700 bat skulls the author studied – is a way to let everyone in.
There are many different types of medical imaging and they all pick up different things.
X-rays are like light rays, but they can pass through more stuff. Some of the x-ray’s energy is blocked by bone, which is why you can see bones so clearly on x-ray scans.
In a recent study of almost 11 million young Australians, we showed those exposed to a CT scan before the age of 20 had a small increase in cancer risk in the years after exposure.
Reducing health-care waste relating to unnecessary tests has been a major priority for researchers, governments and health services for decades. But how do we change the behaviour of doctors?
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Director of Health Programs, BehaviourWorks Australia; Lead, Monash-McMaster Social Systems Evidence Collaboration, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Visual/forensic artist, PhD researcher, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer Medical Imaging , CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in Medical Imaging, Deakin University
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Scientific Computing Consultant, University of Minnesota
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Professor, Roosevelt University
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Professor Emeritus, Neurology and Volunteer at the Field Musuem, Loyola University Chicago
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Dean of Health & Life Sciences + Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology, Teesside University
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Director of Neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre and Research Associate at the Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge
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Professor at School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
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Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
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