Five ophthalmology practices, including one on the Treasure Coast, agreed to pay nearly $6 million to resolve allegations of ...

The Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara has been seen on the heads of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, and Kate Middleton. The tiara includes 19 intertwined lovers knot diamond arches capped ...

New ultrasound technology developed at Johns Hopkins can distinguish fluid from solid breast masses with near perfect accuracy, an advance that could save patients, especially those with dense breast ...

The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather ...

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Samsung Healthcare unveiled a new ultrasound system this week designed to boost diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. The system, named the R20, finally brings the full weight of Samsung Electronics’ AI ...

Patients who received a focused ultrasound treatment to aid drug delivery increased their odds of surviving the deadliest form of brain cancer by nearly 40%, according to a study led by University of ...

A New Jersey mom was excited for her late-pregnancy appointment, not knowing it would be her last. Karen Brennan, 38, went to the doctors for a check-up when she discovered the devastating news that ...

Medical ultrasound is widely known. Cardiologists use it to check the heart is pumping normally. Ophthalmologists use it to check for detached retinas and for tumors. But its most familiar application ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...