Mammograms help doctors detect breast cancer, but now they are being used in a new way -- to identify women who are at risk for heart disease. Not seeing signs of cancer on her routine mammogram is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a radiologist reviewed Deirdre Hall’s mammogram images last summer, everything seemed fine. There were no shadows or lumps or ...

WASHINGTON -- Radiologists examining mammogram X-rays gave false-positive cancer readings up to 15.9 percent of the time, with the youngest and most recently trained doctors having two to four times ...

CONVERSATION. IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS DOCTORS TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT MAMMOGRAMS. DOCTOR DEEPA MIZRAHI, DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S IMAGING AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, SAYS CONTRAST ...

For millions of women, the words “you have dense breasts” can feel both vague and unsettling—especially when it comes after a routine mammogram. Breast density isn’t just a technical term buried in a ...