MRI, Trump and CT scan
Digest more
Delhi's O'Connor Hospital unveiled its new state-of-the-art computed tomography scanner to the public Thursday, June 19. "This journey for us has been about a year in the making at O'Connor Hospital," President and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Staci Thompson ...
Liv Hospital integrates PET/CT diagnostics, radionuclide therapies and a multidisciplinary council to create individualized treatment plans for complex cancer and cardiac cases.
Healthcare experts at various academic hospital institutions have found that numerous hospitals overuse double CT scans, according to a Washington Post report. The report defined a double CT scan as a patient receiving two imaging tests in a row, one with ...
CT scans in the emergency room have gone up dramatically in recent years. A new study links the increase in CT scans to fewer hospital admissions. The use of CT scans in emergency departments increased 330 percent between 1996 and 2007, according to a ...
The president said he regretted undergoing the advanced imaging on his heart and abdomen because it raised public questions about his health.
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 to a new study. The paper, published in the journal ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN
Over 48,000 patients face cancer risk from excessive CT scans
The number of CT (computed tomography) scan users exposed to medical radiation reached 7.54 million last year, an increase of more than 1.6 million compared to four years ago. Among them, an estimated 48,
President Donald Trump defended his energy and health in an interview with The Wall Street Journal and disclosed that he had a CT scan, not an MRI scan, during an October examination about which he and the White House delayed offering details.