Editor's Note: The risks of radiation from CT, particularly in children, have been widely reported in both the professional and lay press and have raised concerns about cancers later in life in these ...

They promise to cut your risk of dying from cancer. Yet full-body CT scans themselves pose a real cancer risk, new calculations suggest. X-rays from a single full-body CT scan give a dose of radiation ...

The American public has been concerned with radiation safety as far back as the tragic story of the “Radium Girls,” female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials ...

Doctors love the detailed pictures created by CT scans. Patients often expect a scan. But now researchers are warning that the radiation patients get each time computerized tomography is used to ...

The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

It's a wonder of modern medicine that when we have something wrong with us, a doctor no longer needs to cut us open just to see what's going on – they can now take pictures of our insides. This field, ...

The high doses of radiation patients receive from CT scans may cause thousands of additional cancer cases each year, according to a startling new U.S. study. The research, published in Tuesday's ...

Two US studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine have found that radiation from computed tomographic (CT) scanners can cause cancer decades after patient exposure. CT scans use blasts of ...

Researchers warn overuse of CT scans may lead to 29,000 cancer cases annually. Dec. 15, 2009— -- Radiation doses from computed tomographic (CT) scans are higher than previously thought and vary ...

A new study reveals that only about 1 in 3 patients with prostate cancer have a successful first CT simulation, while 1 in 6 need to be rescheduled for another day.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Here's a chance to test your medical knowledge: Will getting two or three CT scans of the abdomen expose you to the same amount of radiation as people who lived near the ...