The number of emergency department encounters that included a head CT more than doubled between 2007 and 2022, according to a study published Nov. 19 in Neurology. Researchers from the medical schools ...

Each year, the US performs more than 93 million computed tomography (CT) scans, many of which offer limited clinical value. For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively ...

A new report offers a protocol to help doctors tell if an older adult needs head imaging following a fall. The goal of the project was to come up with a clinical rule that safely excludes older adults ...

There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated.

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...