Tests and Imaging

Unnecessary Medical Tests, Treatments Cost $200 Billion Annually, Cause Harm

Overly aggressive care can hurt patients, generating mistakes and injuries believed to cause 30,000 deaths each year. From Kaiser Health News. It’s common knowledge in medicine: Doctors routinely order tests on hospital patients that are… Read More

How Dangerous Are CT Scans?

By Catherine Guthrie, TIME. Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an… Read More

MRI Dangers

By Dr. Mercola. Condensed by APRA. Gadolinium: The MRI Agent Linked to Brain Abnormalities. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the better choices if you need a diagnostic imaging procedure performed. Unlike CT scans… Read More

Medical Imaging Dangers

By Dr. Evan Levine, a member of APRA’s Medical Advisory Board. How Hospitals and Doctors Put Thousands of Patients At Increased Risk for Cancer. In the 1990s a new type of stress test was developed… Read More