President Trump Receives A CT Scan, Not A MRI. Here’s What That Is And What It Means

A radiologist and public health expert breaks down what we know about President Trump's CT scan, and what this means for his ...

Trump regrets handing Dems health 'ammunition' with October scan — clarifies it was a CT, not an MRI

President Donald Trump underwent a CT scan in October amid health scrutiny, with White House physician reporting perfectly ...

Trump says there’s ‘nothing’s wrong’ with his health, got CT scan not MRI

President Trump disputed the idea that there was anything wrong with his health and clarified that he got a CT scan instead ...

Trump says he got a CT scan instead of an MRI

For weeks, President Donald Trump has said that he received an MRI at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October ...

Aspirin, CT scans and sleep: Five questions raised by Trump’s new disclosures on his health

It is not clear what test he was referring to in his post, and the White House did not immediately return a request for comment. But in 2018, Trump took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 10-minute ...

‘Nothing’s wrong’: Trump opens up on CT scan, bruises, ankle swelling and why he regrets taking that medical scan

Trump had initially described it as an MRI but said he didn't know what part of his body he had scanned. A CT scan is a quicker form of diagnostic imaging than an MRI but offers less detail about ...

'Superstitious' Trump says he takes more aspirin than his doctors want

"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart," Trump told the ...
NBC Washington

Some CT scans may have too much radiation, researchers say

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 ...
Forbes

Should You Worry About Getting Cancer From CT Scans? A Radiologist Explains

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. Radiologists have fielded numerous questions in recent ...
NPR

New research finds CT scans can cause cancer. Here's what to know

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually. X-rays and CT scans have ...
Medscape

Cancer From CT Scans: What’s the Real Risk?

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...
PBS

Study shows link between CT scans and the risk of developing cancer

CT scans are quick, painless, non-invasive tests that can identify everything from brain tumors to injuries from an accident. But a new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine shows a ...