FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- About 500,000 children per year end up in ERs because of head injury. And about half of them undergo a CT scan. But the American Academy of Pediatrics reports that a third of ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only about a third of patients surveyed at one U.S. medical center said their doctors told them about the possible risks of a CT scan, such as radiation exposure, a new ...

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with 10-fold increased risk for babies. CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Patients should not let recent studies showing that exposure to radiation from a CT scan may raise their cancer risk scare them away from getting this type of X-ray when it is ...

Women who undergo CT scans shortly before they get pregnant may be more likely to experience miscarriage and have babies with birth defects, a large new study suggests. Computed tomography (CT) scans ...