When you slide a 500-year-old frozen child into a high-resolution CT scanner, you expect to see the preservation of the past. What you don’t expect to find are stones where a heart should be and the ...

Bellyaches, head bumps and pain are all ailments that children complain about and parents fret over. But do they always warrant a CT scan in the emergency room? A new study suggests that doctors tend ...

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found ...

Researchers examined four frozen mummies recovered from the Ampato and Sara Sara volcanoes in southern Peru during the 1990s ...

Researchers estimated that the use of CT scans in 2023 would cause 102,700 lifetime cancers, including 93,000 cancers in adults and 9700 cancers in children. Radiation from computed tomography (CT) ...

CT scans can reveal a remarkable amount of useful medical information, but more studies underscore the need to balance the benefits of that knowledge with the risks of being exposed to the scans’ ...

Arkansas Children’s Hospital is utilizing telemedicine to expand access to care for rural hospitals that lack pediatric ...

The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...

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 ...