CT scans are used to investigate all sorts of medical issues, from checking for brain bleeding after a kid takes a hard hit on the soccer field, to revealing what a bike accident did to a cyclist’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic — or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A new article warns of 103,000 additional cancers from diagnostic imaging, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Radiation from medical scans has been linked to a higher risk of blood cancers in children. One in 10 blood cancers in ...