More and more people are being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This disease is insidious, often only making itself known in ...

Willem Linders received some bad news in September 2024: pancreatic cancer. His illness is incurable. Nevertheless, the ...

Hong Kong is considering charging patients separately for CT and MRI scans at public hospitals, as part of a reform that, according to authorities, will improve the use of medical resources.

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau said on Friday the government is reviewing fees and charges for public hospital services, including charging for such services as CT scans and MRIs to prevent abuse.

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year, hospitals ...

Unnecessarily high radiation doses in scans have been linked to cancers. Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses of radiation that patients ...

Doctors in the emergency room thought it could be a problem with his gallbladder or his appendix, and they performed a CT scan. It uncovered something worrisome. “I had a mass on my pancreas,” he says ...

CT scans, a go-to for diagnosing everything from tumors to infections to bone fractures, are facing increased scrutiny. Experts say the radiation doses they deliver can vary dramatically — and ...

Computerized tomography (CT) scans use X-rays to create detailed images of the body and are used to diagnose and monitor diseases like cancer and bone injuries, as well as to assist in surgeries ...

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year ...

2Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China 3MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China ...

Contrast-enhanced CT scan (CECT) of abdomen revealed a well-defined, hypodense and hypo-enhancing mass lesion of size 5.4 × 6.8 × 6.6 cm in the pancreatic head without any calcification, few ...