Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to ...

Dr. Michael Topf performed the initial surgery along with several others in the weeks following as part of a study that seeks to demonstrate the long-term viability of the procedure. Surgeons in ...