CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming health care. AI systems can now detect diabetic eye disease from retinal photos and analyze CT images for signs of early-stage lung cancers and stroke.

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...

How do you navigate the benefits versus risks of diagnostic testing, such as CT scans? National Cancer Institute via Unsplash Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- According to the Centers for Disease Control, 50% of concussions go unreported. That's scary to think about because there are millions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...

Australian scientists say it could also help reduce the risk of overdiagnosis by determining which cancers are low-risk and will never cause harm.

A CT scan is often one of the first imaging tests done during the diagnostic process. While a CT scan alone isn’t enough to diagnose pancreatic cancer, it can provide images that help doctors ...

Heart disease is a nasty enough problem. It would be nice if the tests you have to go through just to get your diagnosis didn’t cause so much unpleasantness of their own. Now they may not have to, ...

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has been operating without a functional Computed Tomography Scan machine for five years, PUNCH Healthwise can authoritatively report. It was learnt ...