Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a more accurate and standardized approach to interpreting a common test used to evaluate esophageal motor disorders, according to a study published in ...

A barium enema can help your doctor get a better look at what’s going on in your colon. Find out how the test works and the conditions it can find.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

An air contrast barium enema is a test for your colon.These days, doctors don’t use it as often to look for colorectal cancer.Instead, it’s more common to get a colonoscopy, which can find ...

More information: Yongli Cai et al, Fabrication of atomically dispersed barium hydride catalysts for the synthesis of deuterated alkylarenes, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025 ...

Detecting barium around the extreme exoplanets WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b marks the heaviest element ever found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star other than the sun. The finding could ...

Barium x-ray. A barium x-ray is a test to look at the outline of any part of your digestive system.. Barium is a white liquid that shows up clearly on an x-ray. Once it is inside the body, it coats ...

For barium or iron to remain in the upper atmosphere, he suggests, means that “the planet needs to migrate very fast for this to work” — zipping from far-flung regions around their star to ...

Four of Voyageur's licensed barium contrast media products (SmoothLD(R), SmoothHD(R), VisionHD(R), and VisionLD(R)) were used in these evaluations.