FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- About 500,000 children per year end up in ERs because of head injury. And about half of them undergo a CT scan. But the American Academy of Pediatrics reports that a third of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Patients should not let recent studies showing that exposure to radiation from a CT scan may raise their cancer risk scare them away from getting this type of X-ray when it is ...

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with 10-fold increased risk for babies. CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of ...

Women who undergo CT scans shortly before they get pregnant may be more likely to experience miscarriage and have babies with birth defects, a large new study suggests. Computed tomography (CT) scans ...

Prior CT scans linked with increase in current pregnancy risks Pregnancy risks rise with number of prior CT scans, scans near ovaries Young women should be offered alternatives to CT when possible ...