CT scans are used to investigate all sorts of medical issues, from checking for brain bleeding after a kid takes a hard hit on the soccer field, to revealing what a bike accident did to a cyclist’s ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

A older patient is guided into a CT scanner — an essential diagnostic tool whose life-saving power is now being weighed against growing concerns about long-term radiation exposure. Computed tomography ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPenn Ph.D. student Leening Liu works to align a bass in a CT scanner. The CT machine stood ready like a giant white gleaming donut, but the patient wasn’t quite cooperating. It was evening, and the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The disease often goes undetected until it reaches an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who undergo numerous CT scans over a lifetime may have an elevated risk of developing cancer, a new study hints. CT scans are being increasingly used in nearly all ...

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 ...

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A commonly used computerized scan may slightly increase cancer risk over a person’s lifetime. That’s according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, an online publication of the American ...