Agriculture is one of Connecticut’s most vital yet chronically overlooked industries. With 370,000 acres of active farmland, our agricultural sector contributes more than $4 billion annually to ...

We live in an age where medical technology can uncover what the naked eye can’t, and CT scans are a major part of that advancement. But with growing chatter around radiation exposure and ...

Where are you planning to take your mother for Mother’s Day this weekend in Connecticut? Mixbook surveyed 3,014 mothers to find the restaurants they would most like to visit for their day in the ...

For thousands of students across the state, commencement ceremonies are fast approaching to celebrate academic accomplishments for Connecticut’s best and brightest. Not sure who will be ...

A new study has set off alarm bells, attributing the overuse of computed tomography – or CT – scans to around 5% of new cancer diagnoses annually. Since 2007, this imaging technology has seen ...

A new analysis estimates that more than 100,000 cancer cases per year could be caused by radiation from CT scans. In some cases, the information provided by a CT scan could also be obtained from ...

"CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually," a recently published study suggested Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

But adults also are at risk, since they are the most likely to get scans. “CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked,” said first author Rebecca Smith-Bindman ...

Based on data from 93 million CT scans performed on 62 million people in 2023, the researchers estimated that the CT scans would lead to 103,000 future cancers. To put that in context, those ...

Approximately 93 million computed tomography examinations, or CT scans, are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States — but the radiation from that process can raise the ...

After a CT scan two months later he and his wife Emily ... In September he was diagnosed with grade three astrocytoma, an aggressive, incurable form of brain cancer with a prognosis of between ...

While there are signs and symptoms that may indicate the existence of this type of brain tumor, they are not sufficient for a diagnosis of anaplastic astrocytoma. An imaging procedure, such as a ...