Lung cancer screening might be the best-kept secret in health care today. Only about 16% of those who are eligible in the U.S. get screened for lung cancer, but a study appearing in NEJM Catalyst ...

Lung cancer screening might be the best-kept secret in health care today. Only about 16 percent of those who are eligible in the U.S. get screened for lung cancer, but a study coming out in NEJM ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

Odds of chest CT completion up by 60% compared with usual care. HealthDay News — A direct-to-patient digital health intervention increases rates of lung cancer screening, according to a study ...

Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law on Thursday that aims to make lung cancer screening more affordable in New York State. The new law requires health insurance policies to cover ...

The University of Iowa is opening a new program, the Community Health Assessment and Monitoring in the Pharmacy, or CHAMP, to increase lung cancer screening rates in Iowa to address the state’s high ...

Australia has launched a government-funded lung cancer screening program that provides biennial low-dose CT scans to patients who are either current heavy smokers or who have quit in the past decade.

At 43, Shira Boehler was everything the modern health narrative celebrates: disciplined, active, a 6-mile runner, and critically, in the eyes of the medical system, someone who had never smoked.