Across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, patients in urgent need of life-saving Computed Tomography scanners are left to suffer—or worse, die—due to their absence or dysfunctional state in public ...

Local experts said patients should be aware of the radiation risks of CT scans but not shy away from the technology, which ...

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate ...

Terrified, he rushed to the hospital, and what doctors discovered left everyone stunned. A CT scan revealed that a pair of chopsticks had been lodged in his brain, having entered through his nose! The ...

In three out of four cases, misdiagnosis results from a failure to do a scan, according to the The Brain Aneurysms Statistics and Facts report. The report shows treatment of ruptured brain ...

Each year, nearly half a million people worldwide die from brain aneurysms. In the U.S., an estimated 6.7 million people have an unruptured brain aneurysm, which means about 1 in 50 people might ...

However, an F-18 FDG-PET/CT scan revealed extensive hypermetabolism in the cerebellar cortex, with a maximum standardised uptake value (SUVmax) of 25.91, indicating significant inflammation. The ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The grandmother of two people involved in Sunday’s fatal crash along the PJ Patterson Highway has criticised the Spanish Town Hospital for the lack of a CT scan machine and ...

Nick Gonzales, who has a non-displaced ankle fracture, will have a CT scan Monday in Pittsburgh, general manager Ben Cherington said Sunday on his radio show on 93.7 The Fan. “We’ll know a ...