NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors may miss some cases of pneumonia if they rely solely on their patient's medical history and symptoms without the help of x-rays, according to a new study from Europe. Full story
Scientists may be one step closer to revealing a hidden portrait behind a 380-year-old Rembrandt painting. Full story
A new X-ray source, about the size of a stick of gum, could go into super-light, portable, all-purpose scanners in the future, its developers say. Full story
The brightest objects in the universe are called quasars, and now astronomers have found the first miniature version of a quasar beyond the Milky Way. Full story
Astronomers are a step closer to figuring out a vexing problem with X-ray observations of the sun. There is less iron — specifically, less iron in one prominent spectral light feature — than expected. Full story
The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer. Full story
X-ray imagery suggests that a pulsar star is zooming away from the scene of a supernova at a speed of 6 million mph. Watch a video about the cosmic speedster from the Chandra X-Ray Center. Credit: Chandra X-Ray Center
People who frequently receive routine dental x-rays are at an increased risk of developing the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC’s chief medical editor, reports.
An X-Ray reveals a thermometer still lodged in a woman's lung in China after she swallowed it 44 years ago. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb take a look back at their adventure, north of the border, in Canada’s Quebec province.
Mexican police discovered two trailer trucks carrying 513 migrants Tuesday using X-ray equipment. Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart joins Chris Jansing to discuss illegal immigration and kidnapping.
Chief Medical Examiner Eric Pfeifer looks over a digital x-ray at the ME office, on March 21.
A doctor looks at x-rays.
Doctors look at an x-ray at the emergency ward of a local hospital in San Pedro Sula March 28, 2013. San Pedro Sula, the country's second largest city after Tegucigalpa, has a homicide rate of 169 per 100,000 people and was named the world's most violent city for a second year in a row. Lax laws all
An X-ray and infrared composite image, released on March 19, 2013, illustrates the remnant of Kepler's supernova, the explosion that was discovered by Johannes Kepler in 1604. The red, green and blue colors show low, intermediate and high energy X-rays observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory,
