About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the U.S., according to IMV, a medical market research company that ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels.

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 are the gold standard for detecting pneumonia but there are concerns regarding the risk posed by repeated exposure ...

A deep-learning algorithm has enabled ultra-low dose CT scans to diagnose pneumonia with only 2% of the radiation of standard ...

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. “There is very large variation,” she said, “and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...

Under new Medicare regulations effective this year, hospitals and imaging centers must start collecting and sharing more information about the radiation their scanners emit. About 93 million CT scans ...

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 ...