A radiologist and public health expert breaks down what we know about President Trump's CT scan, and what this means for his ...
If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. Radiologists have fielded numerous questions in recent ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...
CT scans identified cancer in 13% of patients with non-specific symptoms, despite a fivefold increase in referrals from GPs from 2012 to 2019. Around 1 in 7 patients were diagnosed with cancer. This ...
President Trump disputed the idea that there was anything wrong with his health and clarified that he got a CT scan instead of an MRI scan when he visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ...
A population-based cohort study evaluated the risk for spontaneous pregnancy loss and congenital anomalies in offspring of women exposed to computed tomography (CT) ionizing radiation before ...
Medical professionals use CT scans to help diagnose and stage bladder cancer. While CT scans can provide valuable information, they are not perfect and have certain limitations. However, CT scans may ...
A 13-year-old boy suffered for three years with severe abdominal pain and vomiting, despite normal medical tests. Neurologist Dr. Sudhir Kumar diagnosed him with abdominal migraine, a neurological ...