The use of computed tomography for diagnosing common ailments in children is falling by the wayside, replaced by alternate types of imaging such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, according ...
Bellyaches, head bumps and pain are all ailments that children complain about and parents fret over. But do they always warrant a CT scan in the emergency room? A new study suggests that doctors tend ...
Hospitals in Pennsylvania’s Berks County are connecting with a national movement that aims to limit radiation exposure in children from CT scans, according to a Reading Eagle report. According to the ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital in Green Bay is making medical scans less scary for kids with the installation of a “kitten scanner.” The hospital is the first in the ...
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 ...
For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively, even when validated tools suggest the risk of serious trauma is low. In most cases, the scan confirms what clinicians ...
About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...
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