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, ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Hospitals around the country are facing a shortage of a certain kind of dye used to assist in reading computed tomography, commonly referred to as a CAT or CT scan. The dye, ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are being forced to ration medical scans and procedures after a lockdown in Shanghai hit a plant that produces a widely used contrast dye. Subscribe to read this story ...

(WGHP) — Millions of Americans are taking another hit from a shortage. This time, it’s affecting hospitals worldwide and here in the Piedmont Triad. Due to a COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China.

Most people who get a contrast-enhanced scan notice something within seconds of the injection — a wave of warmth, a strange metallic taste, maybe a mild wave of nausea. These are acute reactions, and ...

Omnipaque, or iohexol, is a type of intravenous contrast dye used regularly in CT scans to better see clots or tumors. Supplies have tightened as overseas makers struggle with COVID, creating concerns ...

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 ...

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 ...