About two years ago I wrote a column in the Kitsap Sun designed to be a public service announcement, highlighting several shortcomings of diagnostic imaging (like x-rays, MRIs, etc.) for back pain.

Most of us through middle back pain at some point in our lives – for women, it could be during menstruation, pregnancy or hormonal shifts, and for men (and women at other times) it could be due to ...

Artificial intelligence can already answer questions and produce fantastical images from a few short words. Now, increasingly, it is helping doctors analyze images from inside patients’ bodies to ...