Another healthcare supply deficit is hurting the Lehigh Valley. Some patients' tests have been rescheduled

Due to a global shortage of dye used in X-rays and CT scans, Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke's University have decided to postpone some imaging treatments for their patients.

Intravenous imaging contrast, a dye used in imaging studies, is in short supply in hospitals and h...

CORONA VIRUS UPDATE FOR 14.02.2020

• Latest death toll in Hubei at 116
• Four thousand eight hundred and twenty three (4,823) new cases of COVID-19 detected in Hubei.
• China adopts pulmonary CT scan as the new method to look for pneumonia
• If found positive, the patient then needs to take a speci...

CT SCANS BETTER AT COVID-19 LUNG INFECTION DETECTION

Highlights:

• Hubei adopts CT Scans to diagnose lung infections
• Till now Hubei relied on RNA tests only

Prevention has always been better than cure. Hence if not a cure for the virus, at least a better way of detection. This has been p...

The Thyrocare Board does not say anything to the offer of Velumani to buy the scan weapon

Thyrocare Diagnostic Chain Directors today rejected the offer from Arokiaswamy Velumani, founder and chairperson of the company to purchase its recent initiative to democratize access to cancer facilities. Cancer screening and diagnostic services are currently extremely costly and for a while Vel...