Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female adolescent brains (left) experienced more cortical thinning than male brains (right), particularly in areas tied to ...

Most parents unaware of CT scan risks Children and young adults who had computer tomography (CT) scans of the head had a small but increased risk of later leukemia and brain cancer, data indicate.

Visits to emergency departments by children with sports-related head injuries have skyrocketed in the past decade, and new research finds that many patients undergo unnecessary computed tomography or ...