Doctors love the detailed pictures created by CT scans. Patients often expect a scan. But now researchers are warning that the radiation patients get each time computerized tomography is used to ...

CT scans provide much more detailed images than plain x-rays but expose patients to much higher doses of radiation. In a cross-sectional retrospective study of 11 CT procedures, researchers estimated ...

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 ...

Like X-rays, CT scans represent a potentially significant health problem, one that experts say may not show up for years: cancer caused by radiation. In most cases, it is impossible to definitively ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. A: CT, short for computed ...

This Letter to the Editor of Medscape Radiology is written in response to a Medscape Clinical Commentary article developed by Dr. Michael Brant-Zawadzki (BZ) regarding radiation risk and medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a 79-year-old healthy female. My doctor advised me to have a CT scan due to the bump above my head and the fact that I might have a brain bleed. Since I had quite a few regular ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

* CT scans involve much more radiation than X-rays * 70 million CT scans in U.S. in 2007 * Many CT scans deemed unnecessary By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Radiation from CT scans ...