News tagged with 'CT Scan'

Multiple CT scans deliver a cumulative dose of radiation and currently it is up to the patient to talk to their doctor to determine if the image is necessary. The FDA is addressing at least part of the concern.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against G.E. Healthcare over its brain scanners, reportedly responsible for delivering radiation eight times the recommended dose.

CT scans, commonly used to get a 3-D picture of the body, pose a higher risk of cancer than previously thought, concludes two published studies, and may be responsible for 29,000 future cancers, particularly in the abdomen and pelvis.

34 stroke patients who received CT perfusion scans, have been added to the list of radiation overexposed patients at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. This is the third Los Angeles area hospital to report that its scanners delivered excessive radiation. 256 at Cedars-Sinai have been identified as well.

More than 200 patients who went in for a CT scan to diagnose stroke at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles received more than eight times the dose of radiation. The FDA has issued a warning for other hospital that override the General Electric machine settings.

A new study has the medical field rethinking a diagnostic tool that's frequently used on children.  CT or computed tomography scans are used millions of times every year but the authors warn that the radiation used may result in a spike in cancers over the next decades from the "super X-rays" involved. 

Specialists involved in a new study on the safety of CT scans, otherwise known as "CAT scans," claim children undergo the procedure too often, increasing the risk of unwarranted exposure to radiation. Researchers from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. studied 1,000 patients who had received a

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking steps to ensure computerized tomography (CAT or "CT") scans do not pose a radiation threat to children. The FDA has issued new guidelines that the agency hopes will limit radiation overexposure. CT scans, which help in early detection of disease, have been under attack

While the benefits of computed tomography are well known in diagnosing diseases and trauma and in the guidance of interventional and therapeutic procedures, those benefits are not without risks. This Notification is to emphasize the importance of keeping radiation doses during CT procedures as low as reasonably achiev

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials are concerned about the number of people undergoing CT or "CAT" scans hoping for early detection of diseases. The concern is that otherwise healthy people are unnecessarily subjecting themselves to dangerous levels of radiation. The FDA is especially concerned about t