Arkansas Children’s Hospital is utilizing telemedicine to expand access to care for rural hospitals that lack pediatric ...
Bellyaches, head bumps and pain are all ailments that children complain about and parents fret over. But do they always warrant a CT scan in the emergency room? A new study suggests that doctors tend ...
The use of computed tomography for diagnosing common ailments in children is falling by the wayside, replaced by alternate types of imaging such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, according ...
Hospitals in Pennsylvania’s Berks County are connecting with a national movement that aims to limit radiation exposure in children from CT scans, according to a Reading Eagle report. According to the ...
Visits to emergency departments by children with sports-related head injuries have skyrocketed in the past decade, and new research finds that many patients undergo unnecessary computed tomography or ...
There is growing concern about the risk of cancer which could be associated with CT scans, researchers have warned. It comes as a new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests ...