FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- About 500,000 children per year end up in ERs because of head injury. And about half of them undergo a CT scan. But the American Academy of Pediatrics reports that a third of ...
About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Millions of Americans undergo CT scans yearly for injuries, diseases, or health monitoring. While these scans are essential medical tools, alarming new research led by scientists at ...
At the CT laboratory. Beautiful experienced female radiologist looking at the MRI scan images and putting a diagnosis while standing in the CT lab CT scans pose a greater cancer risk than previously ...
A large study of more than 5 million women over 30 years has suggested that CT scans before conception could increase the risk of pregnancy loss and congenital anomalies. As concerning as the results ...
CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient’s future risk of heart disease and heart ...
Computed tomography (CT) scans could soon account for 5 percent of all new cancer cases diagnosed annually if current practices persist, a new study has concluded. That sounds scary; but how serious ...
A new study suggests that applying a deep learning algorithm to routine abdominal CT scans could help identify fall risk ...
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...
Researchers worry radiation from the scans could have future side effects. Nov. 28, 2007— -- Radiation from the increasingly popular computed tomography scanning machines may be causing cancer, a ...
The number of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head, abdomen/pelvis, chest, or spine performed on children younger than 14 years has risen dramatically since 1996, elevating radiation-induced ...