Brain injuries are being assessed with a blood test rather than a costly CT scan

North Shore University Hospital has been using a blood test instead of radiation to help determine whether a patient has ...
Steamboat Pilot & Today

Weekly Wellness: PET/CT scans for Alzheimer’s

With a simple brain scan, providers can now better detect and monitor Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Tracy Vargas, a neurologist at ...
Healio

Patients with mild TBI, negative CT scan should be evaluated 2 weeks after injury

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Most patients with mild traumatic brain injury and a ...
Healio

Head CT scan use in emergency rooms doubled from 2007 to 2022

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT head scans were ordered in approximately 175 million ED encounters. Patients who received scans were mainly ...
Medscape

Cancer From CT Scans: What’s the Real Risk?

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...
IFLScience

CT Scans Could Soon Be Behind 5 Percent Of New Cancer Cases – What Does This Mean?

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...
Medical Dialogues

Automated CT scan analysis could fast-track clinical assessments, suggests study

A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a versatile machine learning model that could ...