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Nov 7Upper-Right Abdominal Pain After Meals: The HIDA Scan Explained
You finish a plate of wings on a Friday night, and an hour later there is a deep, pressing ache under your right ribs. It builds rather than stabs. Sometimes ...
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Nov 4Bone Scans: How Nuclear Imaging Finds Fractures Other Tests Miss
Three weeks ago the shin started talking to you around mile two. Now it talks at mile one, then during the cooldown, then on the stairs at home. You went ...
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Nov 1Renal Scans: How Nuclear Imaging Checks Kidney Function
Your doctor called about the ultrasound. One kidney looks a little swollen, or one looks smaller than the other, and now there is a second test on your schedule with ...
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Oct 28Hip Pain in Active Adults: What MRI and X-ray Reveal
Here is a test you can do right now. Stand up and point with one finger to exactly where your hip hurts. Not a vague wave at the whole side ...
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Oct 25Scheduling Your Annual Mammogram in Western New York
The reminder card came in the mail sometime around Thanksgiving. You meant to call. Then there was the holiday, then a stretch of lake effect that made leaving the house ...
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Oct 22Wrist and Elbow Injuries: Imaging Sprains, Fractures and Tennis Elbow
You slipped on black ice at the end of the driveway, threw a hand down to catch yourself, and got up more embarrassed than hurt. That was ten days ago. ...
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Oct 19Do You Qualify for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Genetic Testing?
The intake form at the front desk asks whether anyone in your family has had breast cancer, and suddenly you are doing math in a waiting room chair. Your aunt ...
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Oct 16Breast Biopsy: What to Expect, Step by Step
The appointment card sits on your kitchen counter with the mail piled around it, and every time you walk past, your eyes go straight to one word on it. Biopsy. ...
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Oct 13High School Football Injuries: When Your Athlete Needs Imaging
The metal bleachers are about forty degrees, you have a blanket over your knees and a thermos going cold beside you, and your kid just got rolled up on near ...
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Oct 10Breast MRI: Who It Is For and What It Shows
The mammogram report used a phrase you had to read twice: extremely dense breast tissue. At your next visit your doctor mentions adding a breast MRI, hands you an order ...
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Oct 7Concussion Imaging: When a Head Injury Needs a Scan
It is nine o'clock on a Sunday night in October. Your son took a helmet to the side of the head in the third quarter, sat out the rest of ...
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Oct 4Called Back After a Mammogram? What It Does and Does Not Mean
The message says the imaging center called and would like you to come back for a few more pictures. You read it twice. Then you sit down on the edge ...
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Oct 13D Mammography vs. Traditional Mammography: What Is Actually Different
You are on the phone with the scheduling desk, booking the mammogram you have been meaning to book since spring, and the person on the other end asks a question ...
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Sep 27How Nuclear Medicine Imaging Reveals What Other Scans Can't
Most imaging tests answer one question: "What does it look like in there?" They map anatomy, the shape and structure of bones, organs, and tissues. That is useful, but it ...
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Sep 24Bone Density Screening: Understanding Your Osteoporosis Risk
Bones do a lot of quiet work. They hold you upright, protect your organs, and let you move through every season of life in Western New York, from shoveling a ...
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Sep 21Preserving Quality of Life With an Enlarged Prostate
For many men, an enlarged prostate does not announce itself all at once. It arrives quietly, as a slightly weaker stream, an extra trip to the bathroom at night, or ...
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Sep 18Ankle Sprains That Won't Heal: When to Get Imaging
You rolled your ankle weeks ago. You iced it, rested it, wrapped it, and stayed off it as much as life would allow. At first it seemed to be getting ...
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Sep 15Minimally Invasive Treatment Options for Poor Leg Circulation
When the arteries that feed your legs become narrowed, even short walks can turn into a stop-and-start routine of cramping, aching, and resting until the discomfort fades. That pattern often ...
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Sep 12Thyroid Nodules: How Ultrasound Helps Evaluate a Lump in Your Neck
Finding a lump in your neck, or hearing that a routine exam turned up a "thyroid nodule," can feel unsettling. Your mind may jump straight to the worst case. The ...
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Sep 93.0T vs 1.5T MRI: What the Strength of the Magnet Means for You
If you have been told you need an MRI, you may have come across terms like 3.0T and 1.5T, or heard someone mention an open MRI. These numbers and labels ...
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Recent Posts
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Upper-Right Abdominal Pain After Meals: The HIDA Scan Explained
November 7, 2026
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Bone Scans: How Nuclear Imaging Finds Fractures Other Tests Miss
November 4, 2026
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Renal Scans: How Nuclear Imaging Checks Kidney Function
November 1, 2026
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Hip Pain in Active Adults: What MRI and X-ray Reveal
October 28, 2026
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Scheduling Your Annual Mammogram in Western New York
October 25, 2026
