Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by emergency rooms in 2022, up from under 8 million in 2007, researchers ...
Preparation guidelines for a CT scan depend on the type of scan you’re having. If you’re having a bowel scan or a scan with contrast dye, you may need to adjust your diet. Preparation for a CT scan ...
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 new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across ...
What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now comb ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although CT referrals from GPs in Denmark have seen an increase, over 10% of patients with non-specific symptoms are ...
In the US at least, capitalism and profit-seeking muddy all healthcare waters- there's a lot of unspoken incentive to order "more tests", and the most-expensive tests, regardless of their utility for ...