Background: Current guidelines suggest a role for clinical assessment of chest rise in determining adequacy of positive pressure ventilation (PPV). However, these guidelines do not state how chest ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

Definitive chemoradiation for oligometastatic esophageal cancer patients. PIONEER: A multicenter, open-label, randomized phase II trial of second-line apatinib plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy ...

NICE's surveillance team checked whether recommendations in chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis (NICE guideline CG95) remain up to date.

Researchers sought to characterize the effect of the changes in the GINA 2019 recommendations in a real-world patient setting. This article is part of MPR’s coverage of the CHEST Virtual 2020 meeting.

Chest pain while breathing can occur during a heart attack, which requires urgent medical attention. But there are also some other conditions that may cause chest pain while breathing. This article ...

Background: Most Canadian emergency departments use an unstructured, individualized approach to patients with chest pain, without data to support the safety and efficiency of this practice. We sought ...

The diagnostics advisory committee considered evidence on software with artificial intelligence (AI)‑derived algorithms for detecting and measuring lung nodules and other abnormalities in chest X‑ray ...

In some cases, a pinched nerve in the upper back can cause chest pain. However, upper back pinched nerves are less common than those that occur in the neck or lower back. Pinched nerves can cause pain ...

The chest X-ray examination, a basic component of the National Health Screening, will change its target age group from "ages ...