CT scans are vital for effectively diagnosing problems with bones, muscles, organs and blood vessels. But overuse could be ...

CT-associated cancer could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses each year, the study projects.

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but ...

Radiation exposure is a major occupational hazard for healthcare professionals working in medical imaging, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and other radiation-intensive fields. Prolonged ...

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that ...

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

A laureate professor working on early diagnosis of ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, is one of several Harvard ...

The team’s model predicted that approximately 103,000 cancers per year – around 5 percent of the 2 million new cancer ...

UV is commonly known as a health risk due to sun exposure, for instance. While X-rays are high-energy forms of radiation, they are also an essential tool for providing medical professionals with ...