Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

Researchers warn that radiation from the machines can increase cancer risk. New Medicare rules aim to make these imaging ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

In the United States, around 93 million CT scans are performed every year, notes IMV, which is a medical market research ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels.

Radiologists accurately detected pneumonia in low-dose scans cleaned up by AI Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of ...

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 ...

A deep-learning algorithm has enabled ultra-low dose CT scans to diagnose pneumonia with only 2% of the radiation of standard ...

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. “There is very large variation,” she said, “and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...