Each year, the US performs more than 93 million computed tomography (CT) scans, many of which offer limited clinical value. For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively ...

A radiologist and public health expert breaks down what we know about President Trump's CT scan, and what this means for his ...

A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was published on ...

The use of CT-based automation for traumatic brain injury may serve as a valuable tool for clinicians to predict disability outcomes in patients. Utilizing automated computed tomography (CT) scans to ...

Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...

The number of emergency department encounters that included a head CT more than doubled between 2007 and 2022, according to a study published Nov. 19 in Neurology. Researchers from the medical schools ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 138 people ...

(Gray News) - CT scans could be an “important cause of cancer” in the United States, according to a new study. According to the study by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, CT ...

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 ...

Cease is receiving a CT scan on his head after being hit on a bounce by a comebacker in the third inning of Monday's game against the Mets, Marty Caswell of The Sporting Tribune reports. Cease ended ...