How do you tell if a shoe is a good fit? Take a short walk? Squeeze the front-end with your fingers to make sure there is space for your toes? What about a dangerous, 20-second blast of unshielded ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pedoscope was an X-ray machine, marketed as a surefire method of ensuring well-fitting shoes and healthy feet Credit: Photo: Rex/Alamy It was in a shoe shop in Norwich that I had a sudden memory ...

The government sought to assure airline travelers Tuesday that X-raying shoes at security checkpoints was a reliable way of detecting weapons and explosive devices. “Screening shoes by X-ray is an ...