Health Minister inaugurates new medical facilities at Dindigul Government Medical College Hospital and conducts surprise ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good TB is the deadliest infection in the world—but it doesn't often look like this.

Unnecessarily high radiation doses in CT scans have been linked to cancers. Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses that patients get.

But if a CT scan is ultimately deemed to be the best tool—and, to be clear, in certain circumstances it is—then I would not resist getting it out of fear for the small increased lifetime risk ...