Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. One of the main reasons that health care providers order a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT head scans were ordered in approximately 175 million ED encounters. Patients who received scans were mainly ...

Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...

The evolving utilization of functional imaging, mainly 2-[18 F]fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (18 FDG) imaging, with positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT, is profoundly altering head and neck tumor ...