Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare ...

About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 ...

For many situations, MRI is the preferred diagnostic tool -- especially for brain imaging, although CT scan is still chosen for strokes because it is better at detecting hemorrhage. The drawback ...

After all, if medical imaging can spot tumours ... However, PET CT scans can also pick up non-cancerous conditions like infections, Tuberculosis (TB), inflammation, etc, leading to unnecessary ...