Most parents unaware of CT scan risks Children and young adults who had computer tomography (CT) scans of the head had a small but increased risk of later leukemia and brain cancer, data indicate.

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 ...

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 ...

There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated.

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- According to the Centers for Disease Control, 50% of concussions go unreported. That's scary to think about because there are millions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...

If you need medical imaging tests done, you may wonder how much an MRI, CT scan, or other imaging test costs and how these tests differ. Hospitals and medical facilities negotiate the prices of ...

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 ...

Visits to emergency departments by children with sports-related head injuries have skyrocketed in the past decade, and new research finds that many patients undergo unnecessary computed tomography or ...