The authors found that in 2023 there were 93 million CTs done on 62 million patients. The total estimated lifetime number of ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.

Radiation from the images causes 5 percent of cancer cases, according to a new study. The doctor who made this grim discovery ...

That sounds scary; but how serious is this risk, and what does it mean for the use of CT scans going forward? We take a look at the study ... For example, scans like ultrasounds and MRIs, which ...

RASCOE: So can you explain briefly, how do CT scans work? SMITH-BINDMAN ... around the patient in a full circle in a machine that looks like a doughnut. And it uses many, many more X-rays ...

A large-scale study of CT scans performed in the United States has estimated that the widely used medical technology could ...