As a health and medical reporter, I've covered a steady drumbeat of headlines about the alarming uptick in breast cancer cases among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s. I've read the studies. I've ...

But on the day of my mammogram, I spotted a woman in the waiting room sporting a hospital gown and a bald head. She looked young. And she looked sick. Suddenly, I was scared. The truth is ...

Thankfully, breast cancer is very treatable — if detected early. For women who are at risk, scheduling screening mammograms on a regular basis is an essential part of managing your ...

Malia Litman, maneuvered her red scooter through the halls of Children's Medical Center Dallas and turned into the radiology waiting area. Wearing an ice cream–patterned dress, pink tights and a ...

Students will also need to practice helping a patient put on a hospital gown, slippers and compression ... fields as diagnostic imagining, nursing, radiology and phlebotomy, Brenner said.

Before the exam, like with a traditional mammogram, you will be given a gown, brought to a private ... It's also very anxiety provoking for patients to be told ‘we see something,’ but with ...

If this was going to be what chemo was, I was going to be fine, I thought. Until I wasn’t.

Jessica Nachreiner, Comfrey Comets 4-H Club’s adult leader, works at a clinic in Brown County where she noticed the difficulty patients had getting their arms in and out of mammography gowns. “The ...

The patient was drowning in his own blood. I had to work so fast that I didn't even put on a surgical gown. What struck ... a common background in academic radiology. His book illustrates how ...