MotoGP champ Jorge Martin is hospitalized with eight broken ribs and a pneumothorax after a crash in the Qatar Grand Prix.

While the best fitness trackers and best smartwatches come with heart rate monitoring, they'll never match the precision of a dedicated chest strap or a wrist-based monitor. The best heart rate ...

Lung-related chest pain can be diagnosed with the help of a chest X-ray, a CT scan of the chest, or blood tests like D-dimer. Gastrointestinal-related chest pain generally requires an endoscopy.

Hyderabad: Artificial intelligence-driven tools can correctly rule non-tuberculosis (TB) cases with an accuracy of 97 per cent and identify TB cases, with an impressive sensitivity rate of 88.7 ...

Read about flail chest. »More on this:Learn about flail chest. Pneumothorax occurs when air escapes from the lung and gets into the space between the lung and the chest wall. It can lead to a ...

Ever felt that icky tightness in your chest, like it’s full of gunk? That’s chest congestion. Chest congestion occurs when excess mucus or fluid builds up in the lungs or airways, making it ...

A new study in England shows a strong link between higher rates of chest x-ray referrals in general practice patients with symptoms, such as persistent cough, and earlier lung cancer diagnoses, along ...

Familial spontaneous pneumothorax (FSP) accounts for 10% of primary spontaneous pneumothoraces. Appropriate investigation of FSP enables early diagnosis of serious monogenic diseases and the practice ...

Axial and coronal unenhanced thin-slice chest HRCT scans (A and B, respectively) in a 25-year-old male cannabis smoker, showing a large (5 cm) bulla (white arrows), sharply demarcated by a thin wall ...

The incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax has been estimated at between 18 and 24 per 100,000 in men and 1 to 7 per 100,000 in women in varied international settings, and may have increased over time.

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

A pleural effusion can be very small (detectable only by a chest X-ray or CT scan) or be large and contain several pints of fluid ... In some cases, a surgically implanted tube called a ...