Leigh Rodgers died after having an allergic reaction to contrast dye used in a CT scan. A mom went into anaphylactic shock from the contrast dye used in her CT scan, causing her to die within 90 ...

Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...

The study compared five strategies: reducing the dosage of the iodinated dye alongside less tube voltage, weight-based dosage, using unenhanced CT instead of contrast CT if it’s safe, a combination of ...

Jeff Silva walked into his CT scan appointment at Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton looking for answers. A biopsy and MRI had recently diagnosed his prostate cancer, and his doctors had ordered a CT ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An Eastern Iowa family says a loved one diagnosed with cancer can’t receive the needed CT scan because of a global shortage of contrast dye. “I’ve never heard about this, ...

As a worldwide shortage of contrast dye for medical imaging continues, a new UC San Francisco research letter in JAMA quantified strategies medical facilities can employ to safely reduce dye use in ...

Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical. By Reed Abelson See more of our coverage in ...

Leigh Rodgers (left) with her mother Pam in 2023. A mom went into anaphylactic shock from the contrast dye used in her CT scan, causing her to die within 90 minutes of its injection. When Leigh ...