Local experts said patients should be aware of the radiation risks of CT scans but not shy away from the technology, which ...

New research reveals CT scans may cause 5% of U.S. cancer cases annually. Learn the risks, who's most vulnerable, and how to ...

BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab health department has installed a new CT Scan machine at the emergency department of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital on Wednesday. The machine was made functional by BVH CEO ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought ...

But there was a problem—one that had become painfully familiar. The hospital’s CT scan machine had broken down weeks earlier and, and no one knew when it would be fixed. One of the doctors on ...

USA – @xraymechanic shared a video showing an older CT scan machine completing a balancing test with its inner components visible. The footage captured the machine’s rotating parts stabilizing as the ...

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A hot potato: A new study from UC San Francisco is raising alarms about the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States, warning that the technology may be responsible ...

The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, warns that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases.If the current rate of scanning ...

Your next computed tomography, or CT, scan might be riskier than commonly assumed. A study out today calculates that CT scans are contributing to a substantially greater share of cancer cases than ...

Approximately 93 million computed tomography examinations, or CT scans, are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States — but the radiation from that process can raise the ...