The Kerala high court ruled doctors decide diagnostic tests, not patients. A veteran sought scans for head pain but lacked ...

While these advanced imaging tools save lives by detecting injuries and illness, mounting evidence suggests they may come with long-term consequences that patients need to understand before agreeing ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

Researchers compared the prognostic value of clinically interpreted CT vs MRI for incidentally discovered covert cerebrovascular disease.

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 ...

Are there any guidelines for doing a CT scan of the head in an elderly patient with dementia who has no sign of head or other injury following a witnessed or unwitnessed fall? What is the standard of ...

Of approximately 250,000 Americans diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in emergency departments each year, most are hospitalized. But new Michigan Medicine research, published in JAMA Network ...

Denoised ultra-low-dose CT can effectively diagnose pneumonia in immunocompromised patients using only 2% of the radiation dose of standard CT, according to a study published in Radiology: ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Emergency patients received nearly twice as many CT scans in the U.S. as in Ontario in recent years, according to a new study that also found use of the high-powered X-rays ...

The technology has some promising applications, but is not ready for whole body cancer screening and will not replace other imaging tools.

PATIENTS at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are now benefitting from faster and more advanced CT imaging ...