Thanks to reporter Ann Wlazelek for her July 24 story about her mother and the shoe X-ray machines. I remember those machines. I’ve sometimes wondered just how bad they were once we knew they were bad ...

Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...

The news came more than 30 years after her first bout with the killer disease, and it hit hard. At 86, my mother faced a second breast cancer. Sitting on an examining table in the surgeon’s office ...

Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were once a common sight in Sydney’s shoe shops. But 65 years ago, medical specialists had become alarmed by the dangers the X-ray machines posed to customers and workers.

Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put ’em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people’s feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, ...

WASHINGTON - The government sought to assure airline travelers Tuesday that X-raying shoes at security checkpoints was a reliable way of detecting improvised bombs, a claim contradicted by a ...

Many of the greatest scientific discoveries are eventually changed and adapted for more practical and widespread use. Since its discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, the use of the X-ray has become ...