The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has been operating without a functional Computed Tomography Scan machine for five years, PUNCH Healthwise can authoritatively report. It was learnt ...

A scan away from life Across Nigeria, stories like these unfold every day, quiet, painful scenes in emergency rooms where CT scan machines are either broken, outdated, or simply absent. For patients ...

A new study of a commonly used imaging test of the chest to detect potentially deadly blood clots in the lung shows that extending the scan to the legs "where the clots typically originate" or adding ...

A computed tomography (CT) head scan uses X-rays to develop a 3D image of the skull, brain, and other related areas of the head. A CT scan of the head can provide more detail than a traditional X-ray, ...