Recent findings suggest CT scans could be a major cancer risk, but some critics don’t think the estimates add up.

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 ...

Decades after CT and MRI scanners were introduced in India, distribution remains uneven, raising concerns about overuse and ...

A large study of more than 5 million women over 30 years has suggested that CT scans before conception could increase the risk of pregnancy loss and congenital anomalies. As concerning as the results ...

What are the side effects of all those medical zaps? — -- intro: Over the past ten years, Jill Nelson, 52, a health coach, personal trainer and counselor in Chicago, has received at least seven ...

CT scans pose significant radiation exposure, since they involve a series of many X-rays that are combined to create a ...

Medical imaging is one of the biggest contributors of a hospital's energy use. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...

A dying woman had her cancer diagnosis delayed after hospital staff mistakenly scanned the wrong patient due to them having ...