An advantage of whole-body MRIs over CTs is that they use magnets and radio waves, which eliminate the type of radiation ...

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.

Before your scan, providers conduct a safety screening to ... You can manage or reduce costs by trying these strategies: A ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important tool to help doctors see what’s happening inside your body. But new, ...

The study, published in Jama Internal Medicine, warns that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead ...

New research reveals CT scans may cause 5% of U.S. cancer cases annually. Learn the risks, who's most vulnerable, and how to ...

Local experts said patients should be aware of the radiation risks of CT scans but not shy away from the technology, which ...

The risk from a single scan is low, but not zero. The younger the patient, the greater the risk. Children and teenagers are ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.

Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney ... “The genuine interest to want to know what’s inside the body is totally understandable ...