They also questioned how the data and images collected by the scanners would be stored, and who would be able to access them.

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 ...

Federal commission will delegate the oversight of radioactive materials used in medicine, academics and industry to officials ...

July 29, 2009 — Computed tomographic (CT) scans seldom lead to diagnosis or contribute to immediate management of young children presenting to the emergency department with headache but normal ...

Thymus, a small and relatively unknown organ, may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed. With age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat, but, ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, a professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine's ...