NEW YORK -- The number of children rushed to the emergency room because of a head injury has increased dramatically in recent years, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was ...

BETHESDA, Md.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--BrainScope announced today the publication of a study conducted by physicians at Washington University Barnes Jewish Medical Center in St. Louis in the peer-reviewed ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Observing some children after a head injury may help reveal which ones need a computed tomography (CT) scan and which ones don't, enabling many to avoid the radiation of an ...

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 ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

Researchers at Yale University looked at hundreds of CT scans from patients who presented to the emergency department or an acute care facility in psychiatric distress. Diagnostic yield—defined as the ...