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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

A older patient is guided into a CT scanner — an essential diagnostic tool whose life-saving power is now being weighed against growing concerns about long-term radiation exposure. Computed tomography ...

A 22-year-old Brazilian lawyer died after suffering from a severe allergic reaction while undergoing a routine CT scan. According to the New York Post via G1, Leticia Paul went into anaphylactic shock ...

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 ...